Editing Mennonites (section)

=== Organization: North America ===
[[File:alexanderwohl-church.jpg|thumb|[[Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church]] in rural [[Goessel, Kansas]]]]
[[File:Bethel-administration.jpg|thumb|Bethel College, [[North Newton, Kansas]]]]
In 2015, there were 538,839 baptized members organized into 41 bodies in the United States, according to the Mennonite World Conference.<ref name="MWC stats" /> The largest group of that number is the Old Order Amish.  According to the [[Association of Religion Data Archives]], in 2001 there were 80,820 Old Order Amish church members living in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=Groups - Religious Profiles {{!}} US Religion |url=https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/group-profiles/groups?D=607 |website=www.thearda.com |access-date=17 December 2024}}</ref> The [[U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches]] comprises 34,500 members.<ref name="GAMEO-MB" /> 27,000 are part of a larger group known collectively as [[Old Order Mennonite]]s.<ref>[[Stephen Scott (writer)|Stephen Scott]]: ''An Introduction to Old Order: and Conservative Mennonite Groups'', Intercourse, PA 1996.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=B. Kraybill |first=Donald |title=Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites and Mennonites |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2010 |pages=251–258}}</ref> Another 78,892 of that number are from the Mennonite Church USA.<ref name="Shrinking Rolls" />

Total membership in Mennonite Church USA denominations decreased from about 133,000, before the MC-GC merger in 1998, to about 114,000 after the merger in 2003. In 2016 it had fallen to under 79,000. Membership of the Mennonite Church USA is on the decline.<ref name="Shrinking Rolls" /><ref name="mcusaMembershipStats" />

Canada had 143,720 Mennonites in 16 organized bodies as of 2015.<ref name="MWC stats" /> Of that number, the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches had 37,508 baptized members<ref name="GAMEO-MB" /> and the Mennonite Church Canada had 31,000 members.<ref name="MC-Canada">{{Cite web |title=About Mennonite Church Canada |url=http://home.mennonitechurch.ca/about |access-date=11 October 2016 |website=Mennonite Church Canada |archive-date=5 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005095048/http://home.mennonitechurch.ca/about |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2012, there were an estimated 100,000 Old Colony Mennonites in Mexico.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cascante |first=Manuel M. |date=8 August 2012 |title=Los menonitas dejan México |language=es |work=ABC |url=http://www.abc.es/20121007/sociedad/abci-menonitas-mexico-201210071635.html |access-date=19 February 2013 |quote=Los cien mil miembros de esta comunidad anabaptista, establecida en Chihuahua desde 1922, se plantean emigrar a la república rusa de Tartaristán, que se ofrece a acogerlos |archive-date=29 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429070618/https://www.abc.es/20121007/sociedad/abci-menonitas-mexico-201210071635.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mennonite Old Colony Vision: ''Under siege in Mexico and the Canadian Connection'' |url=http://www.hshs.mb.ca/mennonite_old_colony_vision.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404152020/http://www.hshs.mb.ca/mennonite_old_colony_vision.pdf |archive-date=4 April 2013 |access-date=10 September 2014 }}</ref> These Mennonites descend from a mass migration in the 1920s of roughly 6,000 Old Colony Mennonites from the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. In 1921, a Canadian Mennonite delegation arriving in Mexico received a ''privilegium'', a promise of non-interference, from the Mexican government. This guarantee of many freedoms was the impetus that created the two original Old Colony settlements near Patos [[Nuevo Ideal]], [[Durango]], [[Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua]] and La Honda, [[Zacatecas]].<ref>[http://www.gameo.org/index.asp?content=http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/O533ME.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014327/http://www.gameo.org/index.asp?content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gameo.org%2Fencyclopedia%2Fcontents%2FO533ME.html|date=27 September 2007}}</ref>

On the other hand, the Mennonite World Conference cites only 33,881 Mennonites organized into 14 bodies in Mexico.<ref name="MWC stats" />