“I don’t know anything about farming,” Brown said, during the “Frontier Luncheon” in late May at Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute. “I watched Youtube videos.”
He hasn’t let this knowledge deficit stop him from seeking a life of service, however.
Brown started First Fruits Farm in Louisburg, N.C., in 2013 after deciding to leave behind a successful NFL career.
Prior to his disappearance on that date, John Calaba advocated with PeaceBuilders Community Inc. for the cessation of logging on ancestral Dulangan Manobo lands.
PBCI is a Mennonite Church Canada supported ministry increasingly recognized as a bridge builder . . .
Buller Films and the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., are in the early stages of a project that will explore American Mennonites’ impact on society and society’s impact on Mennonites.
Producer Burton Buller’s goal is to understand the role Mennonites have played in American political, social and economic culture, all through the lens of peace.