Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community Explained

Fort Pitt
Settlement Type:Hutterite Colony
Pushpin Map:Saskatchewan
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Label:Fort Pitt
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Saskatchewan
Coordinates:53.5792°N -109.8019°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Province
Established Title:Branch
Established Date:Independent Hutterite
Established Title2:Status
Established Date2:Active
Established Title3:Founded
Established Date3:1969
Established Title4:Excommunicated
Established Date4:1999
Population:~160
Parts Type:Daughter Colonies
Parts Style:list
Seat Type:Mother Colony
Seat:Ribstone Colony, AB

Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community is a Christian Community of Dariusleut Hutterite origin and of many Hutterite traditions, but that is fully autonomous since 1999. It is located in Frenchman Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada close to Fort Pitt Provincial Park. Its spiritual leaders are Reuben Walter and Ben Walter.[1]

What today is Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community was founded in 1969 as a Hutterite colony, a division from the Ribstone Hutterite Colony. When the Fort Pitt Hutterite Colony was excommunicated from the Hutterite church in 1999, about one-third of the people of the colony decided to stay with the Dariusleut Hutterites. The colony then established another colony, Greenleaf Hutterite Colony, Marcelin, Saskatchewan, to accommodate those who wished to stay with the Hutterite Church.[2] [3] [4]

There are about 170 people living in Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community, mostly of ethnic Hutterite background.[5]

Fort Pitt Farms is affiliated with Elmendorf Christian Community and its daughter colonies Detention River in Tasmania and Grand River in Missouri and also with the Altona Christian Community at Henderson, Minnesota.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.gameo.org/index.php?title=Fort_Pitt_Hutterite_Colony_%28Frenchman_Butte,_Saskatchewan,_Canada%29 Fort Pitt Hutterite Colony (Frenchman Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
  2. http://www.fortpittfarms.ca/about_1.html Who we Are at Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community's website
  3. Rod Janzen and Max Stanton: The Hutterites in North America, Baltimore, MD, 2010, page 313.
  4. http://www.gameo.org/index.php?title=Green_Leaf_Hutterite_Colony_%28Marcelin,_Saskatchewan,_Canada%29 Green Leaf Hutterite Colony (Marcelin, Saskatchewan, Canada) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
  5. http://www.fortpittfarms.ca/about_1.html Who we Are at Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community's website
  6. Web site: Elmendorf Christian Community: Links to Christian communities . 2016-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160322053019/http://elmendorfchristiancommunity.sharepoint.com/Pages/Links.aspx . 2016-03-22 . dead .