Parkview Bruderhof

Parkview Community is made up of families and children, as well as a number of young people attending Capital Region universities and Albany Medical College. In addition to Albany Med, St. Peter’s Hospital is nearby, and both hospitals are used by Bruderhof members from other New York locations. Parkview is able to provide housing and support for patients and patients’ families. Several Parkview members work jobs in Albany to help support the community.   We are convinced that a life in church community is the greatest service we can offer humanity and the best way we can proclaim Christ. To be part of the Bruderhof movement is not a lifestyle choice. It is an answer to Jesus’ insistent call to humankind as expressed in the Gospels, especially the Sermon on the Mount. While we follow the communal traditions of the early church, we believe our way of life is a compelling answer to the problems of contemporary society, with its emphasis on wealth and self and its resulting isolation, conflict, and inequality.   Through community, we have experienced Christ’s transforming love. He makes the impossible possible: for ordinary and flawed men and women to live together in forgiveness and mutual trust, as brothers and sisters. It is his Spirit that calls Bruderhof members to a life of love where work, worship, mission, education, and family life are brought together into a single whole.