Status
Currently (2003), there are Mennonite Brethren congregations in more than 20 countries representing well over 300,000 believers. The largest conferences are the Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church of India, with 103,488 members in 840 congregations, and the Communauté des Eglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo, with 85,648 members in 629 congregations. There are 225 congregations with 34,864 members in Canada, 188 congregations with 26,219 members in the United States, and 28 congregations with 1872 members in Japan. Some of the churches of the Bund Taufgesinnter Gemeinden in Germany are Mennonite Brethren (about 12 congregations). There are also 45 independent Mennonite Brethren congregations in Germany with 13,250 members.
Read more about this topic: Mennonite Brethren Church
Famous quotes containing the word status:
“Recent studies that have investigated maternal satisfaction have found this to be a better prediction of mother-child interaction than work status alone. More important for the overall quality of interaction with their children than simply whether the mother works or not, these studies suggest, is how satisfied the mother is with her role as worker or homemaker. Satisfied women are consistently more warm, involved, playful, stimulating and effective with their children than unsatisfied women.”
—Alison Clarke-Stewart (20th century)
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)