- it started with a man named menno simons who was 40 years old and was a Dutch priest who converted to the Anabaptist faith and helped lead it to prominence in Holland by the mid-16th century
- The world Mennonite population in 1984 was approximately 700,000: North America, 310,000; Africa, 107,300; Asia, 113,600; Australia , 100; Caribbean, Central and South America, 76,300; Europe, 38,700; and Soviet Union, 55,000
- The highest concentration today is in north america
- Mennonite worship space as having "no separate 'holy' area, no mysticism, and no strong spatial direction. . . . The church is a gathering of believers in Christ and the church building is merely a shelter in which believers worship together. It is not a holy place