Volunteers join in spirit
of working together
for Koinonia Partners
     What do a Michigan business owner, a Vermont social worker, a college student from England, a preacher from Iowa, and a candy maker from Georgia have in common?
     Koinonia!
     People come from all over the world to the farm founded 60 years ago by Clarence
Jordan to be a "demonstration plot for the Kingdom of God."  There often will be 40 or more people on the farm engaged in a wide variety of work assignments.
     "Koinonia is like fly paper. You get stuck on it and it's hard to let go,"  said Jim Marble, who came with his wife Marilyn,  to volunteer for a week and stayed for four. The Michigan couple set about doing farm and house repairs, campus cleanup and office work using their considerable skills from running a business.  The couple, on heir way to a Habitat Care-A-Vanners Build

Workers pause from their task of pruning  the huge tangle of grapevines. 

said they would "be back!"
Victoria Higham, a sparkly red haired  college student from England, knows about coming back to Koinonia.  She returned to the USA last fall to once again run the shipping operation.  "I love the community living, the rural lifestyle," said Victoria. 

"There is satisfaction from working with a good team of people volunteering from all over the world."
Jack and Shelley Boomhower are another returning RV couple "I come to get my hands dirty," said Jack, a

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Bud Stiles and Randy Nador work on machinery.  Barbara Stanley, Ruth Carson and Marsha Angrish work in bakery.  Owen Miller lays tile in bakery.