home mission

American  

noun

1. a religious mission operating within the country or territories of the supporting church.

---

Other Word Forms

• home missionary noun

Etymology

Origin of home mission

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Declared he: "We are returning home, mission accomplished."

From Time Magazine Archive

This was indeed a misapprehension, and of the kind which, as a benevolent clergyman complained, who was actively engaged in home mission work, was one of the most constant sources of his frequent annoyances.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

The home mission work is in its beginnings, and these are manifestly feeble and inadequate.

From Aliens or Americans? by Grose, Howard B. (Howard Benjamin)

In the fall of 1921 Dr. Stokes's congregation voted almost unanimously to devote the funds hitherto used for home mission work to the maintenance of a legislative bureau at the State capital.

From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Strunsky, Simeon

Many of the young women of the church had gone to teach in home mission schools.

From The Making of a Country Parish by Harlow S.