home missionary
- a word derived from home mission.
Example Sentences
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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
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
In writing thus frankly of home missionary work, I am not unmindful of all the difficulties with which Christian ministers have to contend.
From Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers by Richmond, Mary Ellen
I wonder what the home missionary society would have said to see Brother Iosefo yawning all day on the top of a trunk, or writing his sermon on his knee, Saturdays!
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
