text: is the mennonite culture not suppose to celebrate halloween? if they can, are the kids allowed to dress up in costumes? i searched for "mennonite halloween" on line, and came across a few individual congregations that were having youth parties, like other christian denominations, on halloween.  one group had this to say, and i thought it was a pretty good answer to your question: "many families celebrate halloween but they often do so by having parties in their homes for children, or church youth groups plan special parties for the evening.  there are also mennonite groups who believe that it is wrong to celebrate halloween because they believe that it has evil connotations … the celebration of evil spirits, etc. most conservative groups would not celebrate halloween because they would consider it foolish and a “worldly” activity. "