Mennonites are people of God's peace God is love. Love builds bridges.
Fear builds walls.
Jesus followed the path of love to death and built a bridge that is stronger than death. With the spirit of fear in us, we seek revenge and build walls of hostility. With the Spirit of Jesus in us, we can seek good for those who threaten or hurt us and build bridges of love. The Mennonite Church , a Christian denomination with about 1,100 congregations and 110,000 members in North America, has been learning about peacemaking since its beginning in Europe in the 1550s. Today Mennonites work to make peace in the U. S. and Canada, Benin, Bosnia, Argentina, Ireland, Haiti, the Middle East, South Africa, Hong Kong, Zaire and many other countries.