home mission

American  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• home missionary
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of home mission

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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home mission

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Bible societies constitute an independent branch of the home mission.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

There is no more encouraging home mission work, and wherever earnest effort has been made, the response has been most gratifying.

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

According to these accounts, the home mission was established at Walpi, with another chapel at Shumopavi, and a third and important one at Awatubi.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols

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

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