Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community is a

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Community of

Dariusleut The Dariusleut, also Dariusleit, are a branch of the Hutterites that emerged in 1860. History Russian Empire In 1859, Michael Waldner and Jakob Hofer (1830–1900) successfully reestablished a community of goods among some Hutterites in Hutter ...

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origin and of many Hutterite traditions, but that is fully autonomous since 1999. It is located in Frenchman Butte,

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close to

Fort Pitt Provincial Park Fort Pitt Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Fort Pitt was built in 1829 by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and was a trading post on the North Saskatchewan River in Rupert's Land. It was built at ...

. Its spiritual leaders are Reuben Walter and Ben Walter. 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,

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, to accommodate those who wished to stay with the Hutterite Church. There are about 170 people living in Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community, mostly of ethnic Hutterite background. Fort Pitt Farms is affiliated with

Elmendorf Christian Community The Elmendorf Christian Community (or Elmendorf Hutterite Colony) is an independent Anabaptist community of Hutterite tradition. Even though the majority of the members are ethnic Hutterites, there are also members from different other backgroun ...

and its daughter colonies Detention River in Tasmania and Grand River in

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and also with the Altona Christian Community at

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