Welcome to the Avodah Center
The Avodah Center is part of the International "ordinary" Anabaptist Assemblies, with headquarters in Switzerland.
Our Communication and Outreach Center is in Harlan, Indiana, USA. Contact us if you wish at 1-260-297-0535
Formed in 1522 after the purges, our people hid in place. Not unlike the Sephardic Jewish communities that hid from the inquisition in Spain, we simply stopped openly identifying ourselves as Anabaptist - and remained part of the faith cultures that were approved at that time.
We hid for nearly 500 years, because we were being slaughtered for our faith.
There are books listing all of our early Martyrs, who suffered condemnation, torture and death in the name of faith, family and traditions stretching back to the time of Jesus of Nazareth.
My name is John Hubertz, and I am currently building a core team of "ordinary" people, from all walks of life, to create and staff this new mission - called simply, Avodah.
We began in a small way, in Fort Wayne Indiana in 1998, following the living example of my parents. The blessed Carl Edward and Bernice Catherine (Nesius) Hubertz, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. "For they walked in miracles all the days of their lives". Carl Hubertz died November, 2001, Bernice passed in 2007.
Our foundational elder, Carl Zehr (a "buggy" Mennonite), passed away during this same time period. He was the first of equals, and a prophet - spending hours hammering his typewriter into dust by the light of a kerosene lamp.
We became upon his death, the repository of his collected writings. They are massive, as were his books (some have been lost). His writings alone fill two postal boxes (the big ones) to the brim, double sided, single spaced.
He wrote - sometimes uninterrupted for days, in "the Spirit". He was a prophet, and his work forms the foundation of what became first the Hope Project, and now, after nearly 30 years of preparation - the Avodah Project, worldwide.
We are based in Harlan, Indiana and Bern-by-the-Lake, Switzerland.
Welcome.
(history - continued)
By that point Avodah had risen from its' origins as a local "charity", and our work and creed had begun to form under the direct guidance of the holy spirit. Our elders, Wolfgang Honold of Switzerland, Avram Friedman of Birmingham, Nikos Nakos of Fort Wayne, Greg Rohler of Indianapolis and John Hubertz, began to be aware they were functioning in a state of grace.
What is Avodah, and what does it mean? (all links open in a new window, so that you might continue reading and exploring this important concept).
posted by John Hubertz @ November 29, 2021
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