1525 English Lane - Worldwide Address, 1/5/2022

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Subject:  1525 English Lane, Essay for Publication

Date:  12/25/2021

Merry Christmas,

As Christmas family life slows once again, as life (even for young parents) returns to normal, as batteries and/or small tools for assembling traditional toys are tucked away), we need to celebrate the lives we now share, share with you NE Allen County (and around the world).

This week’s message is from Senior foundational elder Wolfgang Honold of the Swiss Avodah Center in Bern.

My friends, old and new.

It is a privilege to have lived a sufficiency of years to see the Hope Project (begun nearly 30 years ago) bloom, grow and be prepared for harvest.  The season of that harvest begins in 2022.

498 years from this date - 499 in 2022.  That is long enough, the period of waiting, is behind us.

Here in Switzerland of course, and in Germany, Holland, England, Spain, Portugal… indeed throughout “Europe”, we have slowly and painstakingly reached out person to person “mano e mano”, oro e oro” (hand to hand, eye to eye).

Ours is a very large but very extraordinary version of the faith prevalent in Northern Indiana - and throughout North America.

I am assured by our elders John Hubertz (and in welcome, Cecil Kite of Fort Wayne, to replace the blessed Avram Friedman, deceased 2021). 

 I am assured that the Anabaptist traditions of work and worship, and dedicated service, simply have lifted the entire NE Indiana, Central-Northern Indiana and of course, bordering regions of Ohio and Michigan.

This gives an old man great joy.

As we prepare to reach out a hand of hope, we tell you this - it is our intention to hold a genuine, old-style Anabaptist barn raising, but we shall be building bridges of hope, help and simple communication, with the greater world.

500 years is long enough.

I pray we can help - and offer our full and unconditional support in whatever way we might become, new neighbors, welcome at the gate of your beautiful homes, factories and farms.

In peace I remain sincerely yours;

Wolfgang Honold

Geneva, Switzerland

Avodah Centre, EU

Bern-by-the-Lake, Switzerland