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
She married a home missionary, and they are in a lonely part of the west.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
When the historian correctly interprets the story of national progress in the nineteenth century, he will first of all take account of the home missionary.
From The Call of the World or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity by Doughty, W. E.
