home mission
noun
a religious mission operating within the country or territories of the supporting church.
home missionary
-
a word derived from
home mission.
Example Sentences
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The idea came to him more than three years ago, when he heard a home missionary say that there are 30,000 Protestant church buildings in the U.S. in which no regular services are conducted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foreign and home missionary activities will be reduced respectively 10% and 15%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Decade ago a strapping young German Catholic priest, who had entered the order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate after serving as a War pilot, found himself stationed for home missionary work near Berlin's Tempelhof airport.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who was it that sent the home missionary to the office of a person he had never seen or known?
From The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer by D. W. (Daniel Webster) Whittle
Several hundred dollars of home missionary money was saved annually which had been expended in Northfield to keep the church open and alive.
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill
