The overall impression is one of a people with a conservative set of values. Religious faith is at the core of what it means to be Mennonite.
Faith gives life meaning, purpose and direction.
Mennonites believe that it is not what you say on Sunday that matters but how you live the whole week. Besides their common religion, a sense of their history binds Mennonites and gives them a definition of who they are. Those Mennonites in search of their history are likely to find it preserved at one of several archives in Winnipeg and at the Mennonite Heritage Village located at the town of Steinbach, Manitoba. And to learn about what it is to be a Mennonite. For Mennonites food is an important form of expression.