Introducing The Black Forest Project 421 Blog

Four Core Values of the Anabaptist: Faith, Family, Community and Simple Living

Schwarzwaldhaus Kathi, Todtmoos, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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            The Black Forest Project 421 Blog was founded on April 21, 2023 to commemorate the Dordrecht Confession of Faith, which was adopted on April 21, 1632. The name, Black Forest (Schwarzwald) was chosen because I love viewing it  for its beautiful scenery and I love the Black Forest House (Schwarzwaldhaus), which will be the logo of the blog.  

            The Black Forest region of Germany played a significant role in the early Anabaptist movement, particularly in the development of the Schleitheim Confession. This area provided refuge for Anabaptists seeking to practice their faith away from persecution. The 12 Articles of the German Peasants in 1525, could have inspired the Four Core Values.

             This blog is dedicated to the Four Core Values of the Anabaptist: Faith, Family, Community and Simple Living. Most of the blog posts in this blog will be related to the Four Core Values. As also a memorial to the 12 Articles of the German Peasants in 1525, there will be 12 related topics on this blog, they are:

The Four Core Values -

1. Faith

2. Family

3. Community

4. Simple Living

5. Finance

6. Farming and Food

7. Animal Culture

8. German Language and culture

9. Leisure like music and sports

10. Anabaptist and Reformed Church History

11. Defying Tyranny

12. Beautiful Countrysides

    

²⁴ And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, ²⁵ not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. – Hebrews 10:24-25 (ESV)

Bruderhof members in outdoor gathering.

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https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/07/140th-birthday-for-eberhard-arnold-july.html

https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/11/plain-people-and-mutual-aid-why-we-live.html

https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2025/07/eberhard-arnold-on-simple-living.html

About me: I am Jonathan AKA Aussieporean 2020 – a Singaporean who lives in Australia, who is a Reformed Chrisian and a proponent of the Four Core Values - Faith, Family, Community and Simple Living. Having visited Pennsylvania, Austria, Germany and Switzerland before, I love to learn more from the Anabaptist and Reformed Christians.

The family that works together, eats together, and prays together, stays together. – Amish Proverb

An Amish family with 8 children

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⁶ and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind:

 ⁷ the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.

 ⁸ And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,

who was and is and is to come!”

 ⁹ And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

 ¹¹ “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,

to receive glory and honor and power,

for you created all things,

and by your will they existed and were created.”

- Revelation 4 verse 6 to 11 (ESV)\

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 https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/powerful-prayers-for-children.html

 http://www.danielhaston.com/roots/anabaptists/anabaptists.htm

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