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
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
Foreign and home missionary activities will be reduced respectively 10% and 15%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Guess I wouldn’t be much of a success as a home missionary.
From Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted by Harriet L.
These appeals had awakened in Esther's mind a fixed resolve to devote herself to some form of home missionary work.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee
