Wholesome Bread.
The Yellow Delli,
Honiton, Devon, UK.
Deli offering sandwiches, salads & breakfast, plus a juice bar mixing up smoothies & other drinks.
Not all sweetness and light:-
Surrounded by beautiful, rolling countryside and famous for its lace, pottery and antiques, Honiton is a quiet, sleepy market town like so many others in Devon. - - Which is why it seems a strange place for a cafe founded by a staunchly religious community - known as the Twelve Tribes - who began life in the southern US state of Tennessee back in the 1970s.
But that is what the Yellow Deli, situated on the town's high street, is: one of the group's many cafes dotted around the world where, according to their website, they aim to 'pass on the love, joy, and peace spoken of in the New Testament'.
The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, the Messianic Communities, and the Community Apostolic Order, is a new religious movement: founded by Gene Spriggs that sprang out of the Jesus movement in 1972 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The Twelve Tribes's beliefs resemble those of Christian fundamentalism, the Hebrew Roots movement, Messianic Judaism, and the Sacred Name Movement; however, the group believes that all other denominations are fallen, and it therefore refuses to align itself with any denomination or movement. The group has strict courtship rules, and their views on child rearing has been a source of controversy.
The group supports itself through the operation of several businesses, most of which revolve around agriculture, as well as cafés and restaurants, all using unpaid and often child labour.
Some governments and advocacy groups have labelled the group a cult.
Take from this "what you will."
(Personally I find them a bit creepy).
Wholesome Bread.
The Yellow Delli,
Honiton, Devon, UK.
Deli offering sandwiches, salads & breakfast, plus a juice bar mixing up smoothies & other drinks.
Not all sweetness and light:-
Surrounded by beautiful, rolling countryside and famous for its lace, pottery and antiques, Honiton is a quiet, sleepy market town like so many others in Devon. - - Which is why it seems a strange place for a cafe founded by a staunchly religious community - known as the Twelve Tribes - who began life in the southern US state of Tennessee back in the 1970s.
But that is what the Yellow Deli, situated on the town's high street, is: one of the group's many cafes dotted around the world where, according to their website, they aim to 'pass on the love, joy, and peace spoken of in the New Testament'.
The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, the Messianic Communities, and the Community Apostolic Order, is a new religious movement: founded by Gene Spriggs that sprang out of the Jesus movement in 1972 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The Twelve Tribes's beliefs resemble those of Christian fundamentalism, the Hebrew Roots movement, Messianic Judaism, and the Sacred Name Movement; however, the group believes that all other denominations are fallen, and it therefore refuses to align itself with any denomination or movement. The group has strict courtship rules, and their views on child rearing has been a source of controversy.
The group supports itself through the operation of several businesses, most of which revolve around agriculture, as well as cafés and restaurants, all using unpaid and often child labour.
Some governments and advocacy groups have labelled the group a cult.
Take from this "what you will."
(Personally I find them a bit creepy).