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Missionary

Missionary meaning

One who is sent on a mission. | A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity). | A religious messenger.

Example sentences (20)

He’s probably not calling you to be a missionary to a third-world nation, but He is calling you to be a missionary to your corner of the world.

D’Ambra was, at that time, a missionary priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (Pime), the Rome-based missionary group founded in 1850.

The trip held special meaning for Bethune, particularly since she had attempted to travel to Africa as a missionary at the age of 20 and was told by the missionary society that she could not do so because she was Black.

While the missionary could be viewed as the exception who was interested in welfare and spiritual matters, it would be foolish to overlook the economic, material and political effects of missionary endeavour.

By the end of the century, the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and the Christian Women's Board of Missions were also engaged in missionary activities.

He and James Laidlaw Maxwell appealed to the London Missionary Conference of 1888 and the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 to condemn the continuation of the trade.

Missionary dreams Contrary to popular belief, Williams never intended to become a missionary to the Native Americans.

Missionary in Lambaland The Doke family had been engaged in missionary activity for the Baptist Church for some generations.

Shortly after, he applied to join the London Missionary Society (LMS) and was accepted subject to missionary training.

Since the London Missionary Society deemed that the College should focus more on the training of evangelists after the relocation, The College was renamed The Theological Seminary of the London Missionary Society in China.

The letters indicate that Nettie befriended a missionary couple, Samuel and Corrine, the well-dressed woman that Celie saw in the store, whom Nettie eventually accompanied to Africa to do missionary work.

There is no maximum age for missionary service for women. citation Prior to October 2012, the minimum age for full-time missionary service was generally 19 for men and 21 for women. citation.

When his son Eugene announced that he wanted to become a Christian missionary, Gauss approved of this, saying that regardless of the problems within religious organizations, missionary work was "a highly honorable" task.

According to Fides, the news agency of the Vatican's missionary activities, there are about 1300 baptised Catholics in Mongolia among a population of about 3.3 million people.

Africans who are afflicted by the colonial hangover of the missionary position always look up to Europe and America to initiate agendas and projects.

After he was ordained a priest in 1986 with the Society of the Divine Word, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, Archbishop Kikuchi was sent to serve as a missionary priest in rural Ghana for eight years.

After she graduated and was rejected as a medical missionary, Chung turned to surgery, performing trauma operations at Santa Fe Railroad Hospital in Los Angeles.

Already as a teenager, Green heard Singer, the counter-missionary rabbi, speak at his Jewish high school in Los Angeles.

A missionary book from 1808 published for enslaved and former enslaved people, edited to remove all references to freedom from slavery, will also be on display.

At this critical juncture in St John’s history, the Community of the Resurrection, an Anglo-Catholic order of missionary priests and lay brothers, came into the picture.