An African-American Mennonite family, James and Rowena Lark with their son Alex, Chicago, 1947.
Black Mennonites are people who are both Mennonite and Black. Black Mennonites live in Africa, the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. Black Mennonite communities have existed in the United States and Canada since the late 1800s. Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are home to the second and fourth largest populations of Mennonites in the world. Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Angola also have some of the larger populations of Mennonites in the world. Glen Alexander Guyton, the first African-American leader of the Mennonite Church USA, has stated that "The typical Mennonite is an African woman", due to Mennonite missionary outreach in Africa, and that African Mennonites "are now sending missionaries to Europe and the United States."[1] While Mennonites have historically been mostly white people of Central or Eastern European descent, with population centers in North America and Europe, Black Mennonites now outnumber white Mennonites globally. African Mennonite churches have had a larger number of members than North American Mennonite churches since 2006.[2]
^"Mennonites select their first African American leader". San Antonio Express-News. 9 February 2018. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
^"Seeking Peace in Africa: Stories from African Peacemakers". University of Waterloo. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
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