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

Etymology

Origin of home mission

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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home mission

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I am told that almost every county has such a nest somewhere within its boundaries and that it seldom appeals to anyone as a home mission field.

From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman

The whole Church, at home, is devoted to the home mission service.

From A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John A. Widtsoe

This training provides well-equipped missionaries for the foreign field, and equally well-prepared missionaries for the great field of the present hour—the home mission work in the crowded wards of great cities.

From Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Jane M. Bancroft (Jane Marie Bancroft) Robinson

That was the beginning of Portia's home mission; and from that hour she devoted herself to it, thinking of no reward, for such "secret service" could receive neither public sympathy nor praise.

From Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story by Louisa May Alcott