Anabaptist-Mennonites worldwide can look to these continents for vision and leadership in the years ahead. It depicts land areas accurately, but distorts shape.
Most world maps depict Northern continents as larger than they really are.
For the first time in the history of the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement, its baptized followers number more than a million. The Mennonite and Brethren in Christ World Directory 1998, published by Mennonite World Conference, shows 1,060,000 baptized members, according to Larry Miller, MWC executive secretary. The members are in 192 conferences in 60 countries. The 1994 census showed 973,921 members in 194 bodies in 61 countries. The net increase is approximately 85,000 members, or 8.7 percent.