“In the 1920s a large group of Mennonites made a big decision. They would sell their homes and farms in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and build new farming villages in Mexico. In this reader you will meet the people who made that decision and find out why they made it. You will travel across Mexico with six men who were sent to find just the right land for their people. You will go by train with the children, young people, their parents and their farm animals, to their new homeland. You will enjoy y our first breakfast of bread and coffee in your tent-village home. “No breakfast had ever tasted so good,” wrote Ohm Iezak. You will also meet Mexicans who wondered who all these strangers were. All that and more…”

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“In Leaving Canada: The Journey to Mexico, Volume One, you met a big group of Mennonites who made an important decision. They sold their farms in Canada and moved to Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico. In this reader, you will see how the young people and adults in this group got to know their strange new homeland. Abram loved Mexico’s red-brown earth. Two brick layers, Ramon and Vicenti, turned it into adobe bricks for buildings houses. Sarah and her brothers and sister planted a large field of corn by hand. The adults, who knew snow blizzards in Canada so well, were frightened by Mexico’s fierce sandstorms. Wise leaders and a good German friend solved difficult problems together. All this and more…”

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