Koinonia is an intentional Christian community in Americus, Ga. founded in 1942 by Clarence and Florence Jordan and Martin and Mabel England. Today’s focus is feeding the hungry, both spiritually and physically. Koinonia continues to offer fresh pecans and other baked goods through its mail-order business, offers spiritually formative internships for those interested in exploring intentional community and social justice values, and is a leading example of regenerative farming using Permaculture methods. Koinonia continues the experiment in Christian living striving to be a demonstration plot for the Kingdom of God. Visitors are welcome year round, often coming for retreats or to help out around the farm. The community’s commitment to racial equality attracted national attention in the 1950s as they endured bullets, bombs, and a boycott. Well-known activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dorothy Day worked together with Koinonia during the Civil Rights Movement. Through it all, blacks and whites lived and worked together side by side in a time and culture where segregation was the norm and anything else could be met with violence and resistance. It was also at Koinonia Farm that Habitat for Humanity and Fuller Center for Housing began.
