Meserete Kristos Church, meaning "Christ is the foundation Church" (based on I Cor. 3:11) is an
Ethiopian Anabaptist (
P'ent'ay) church with 255,462 baptized members and a worship community of over 471,070 persons as of November 2014. The church has over 756 congregations and 875 church planting centers scattered in all 18 Administrative Regions of Ethiopia. The denomination's growth rate in the last decade stands at 37%. The church is part of the larger
Anabaptist body as a member of
Mennonite World Conference, an organization which has seen the majority of its recent membership growth outside of
Europe and
North America. MKC is the largest Anabaptist conference in the world. By comparison, the largest Anabaptist body in the USA is The Mennonite Church, with 110,000 members.