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

According to these accounts, the home mission was established at Walpi, with another chapel at Shumopavi, and a third and important one at Awatubi.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols

There's no more influential home mission than matrimony, for two honest people, of course, and that the doctor, with all his blindness, has an honest soul, we've never doubted.

From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse

There are twelve institutions, a home mission and home teaching society; nine of these institutions are asylums, that system having been largely adopted in Ireland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

Some teachers have become foreign missionaries, Children's Care Committee visitors, or home mission workers and visitors.

From Women Workers in Seven Professions by Edith J. Morley