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

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.

Doubtless at the present time the deaconess who will answer to the greatest number of immediate wants is the “parish-deaconess,” or the home mission deaconess, as we may call her.

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

The one, “Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands,” is a church dedication hymn of rare beauty; the other, “Look from Thy sphere of endless day,” is unquestionably one of the finest home mission hymns ever written.

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin

"Here's a home mission all ready for you, and you can be paying your debts beside doing yourself good," Mrs. Pecq said to her in private, having found plenty to do herself.

From Jack and Jill by Alcott, Louisa May