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Kathleen Monts Retires

Kathleen sitting outside

Our beloved Kathleen Monts has retired. We’ll miss her but she’s promised to come see us often. Thank you for everything, Miss Kathleen!

Peacemakers Series – Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?

Peacemakers Series – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Koinonia Grow – A Busy October!

We have enjoyed our time in the gardens this month. With our interns, Come, Stay Awhile, & Serve participants, and all of the Koinonia Grow team working together, we’ve been able to harvest, turn over beds, plant for fall, and more!

Peacemakers Series – Eberhard Arnold

Eberhard Arnold

We do feel drawn, with them, to all men who suffer need and distress, to those who lack food and shelter and whose very mental development is stunted through exploitation. With them, we stand side by side with the “have-nots,” with the underprivileged, and with the degraded and oppressed.

A Tip of the Hat

Clarence Jordan black and white portrait

Clarence and Florence Jordan and Mabel and Martin England founded Koinonia to be an experiment in Christian living. It was and is to be a demonstration plot. But what is it supposed to demonstrate? Love and selflessness, yes, but what is the sign that demonstrates we are loving and selfless? Joy is the fruit, the sign for which we look.

Peacemakers Series – Viola Liuzzo

Viola Liuzzo black and white portrait

Viola Liuzzo lived a life that combined the care of her family and her home with a concern for the world around her. This involvement with her times was not always understood by her friends; nor was it appreciated by those around her. -Sarah Evans

Peacemakers Series – A.J. Muste

AJ Muste black and white photo

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Koinonia Grow – Fall Gardens

Tilled garden plots on a beautiful fall day

It’s a busy time in the garden this month! We are harvesting, watching new plants sprout, and preparing plots for a round of fall planting.

Peacemakers Series – Susan B. Anthony

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best word, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Peacemakers Series – Rachel Corrie

Rachel Corrie

Many people want their voices to be heard, and I think we need to use some of our privilege as internationals to get those voices heard directly in the US, rather than through the filter of well-meaning internationals such as myself. I am just beginning to learn, from what I expect to be a very intense tutelage, about the ability of people to organize against all odds, and to resist against all odds.