He attempted to maintain a "simplicity" in the building so as to convey a feeling of shelter, not just from the elements, "but from the world which is so much an underlying theme in the Mennonite way of life" and to that end the church is scaled to a small congregation, with a sloping wall and "an almost total absence of windows"; even the continuous recessed gutter which isolates the roof from the building is meant to convey the sense of it being draped over the roof "like a blanket".