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Latest Posts. Peacemakers Series — Sojourner Truth. Koinonia Grow — A Busy October! We preached, taught, and were members of local churches. From the beginning, Koinonians emphasized the brotherhood and sisterhood of all people. When we could afford to hire seasonal help, Black and White workers were paid a fair, equal wage. When the community and its guests and workers prayed or ate a meal, we all sat together at the table, regardless of color.
Our commitment to racial equality, pacifism, and economic sharing brought bullets, bomb and a boycott in the s as the KKK and others attempted to force us out. We responded with prayer, nonviolent resistance, and a renewed commitment to live the Gospel. We created a mail-order business, which continues to sustain our community today.
As the threats of violence dwindled, we focused on the poor quality of local housing and began a project to build decent, affordable homes for our neighbors. Clarence Jordan also focused on a passion he held to pen a version of the New Testament from the original Greek to south Georgia vernacular. From his writing shack nestled in one of our pecan orchards, he wrote the Cotton Patch Version , prepared for nationwide speaking engagements, and, in while working on a sermon, it is where he died suddenly.
Florence Jordan. The housing ministry evolved into Habitat for Humanity International under the leadership of Millard and Linda Fuller, who were members of Koinonia. People interested in working for racial reconciliation continue to live there, but they must now earn their own incomes and pay their own expenses.
Koinonia continues to operate the mail-order business and the farming enterprise, which it revived after the boycott lifted in the late s. Koinonians have begun working on prison and death penalty reform as well. Koinonia lasted as an intentional community for more than fifty years, a long tenure compared with other communal endeavors in this country.
Koinonians demonstrated a high level of flexibility both in the ways they worked for racial reconciliation and in the ways they restructured the community as circumstances changed. In the end, however, the community suffered from too few members and too much debt to remain viable. Koinonia still operates as a nonprofit organization, and its legacies of Habitat for Humanity and Jubilee Partners continue to address issues of human suffering around the world. Chancey, Andrew.
Chancey, A. Koinonia Farm. In New Georgia Encyclopedia. Attempting to live out the principles of pacifism, simplicity, and racial integration, a pair of white Baptist ministers and their wives, Mabel and Martin England….
Clarence Jordan, the cofounder of Koinonia Farm, poses with the children of community members. By , the population of the farm had grown to around sixty people, but by the end of the s only two families remained.
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Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Hargrett Manuscript and Rare Book Library at the University of Georgia. Koinonia Farm, founded in by Clarence Jordan and Martin England, began as an experiment to establish a racially integrated Christian community and working communal farm. This aerial view of the farm was taken in Clarence Jordan feeds poultry in the chicken house at Koinonia Farm.
During the difficult years of the s, the residents of Koinonia Farm established a mail-order pecan business to keep the farm afloat, selling pecans to sympathetic customers around the country.
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