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A missionary companionship, consisting of two (or occasionally, three) missionaries, is the smallest organizational unit of a mission. Every missionary is assigned by the mission president to be another missionary's companion. Missionary companionships are generally maintained for months at a time and most missionaries will have served with ...
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, ...
A missionary order is a Catholic religious order devoted to active missionary work. No Catholic religious order was founded for that purpose, but all the mendicant orders have been active in this field and others too, in particular the Jesuits, whose members include outstanding missionaries such as Saint Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci.
The Missionary Church is a Trinitarian body which believes the Bible is the inspired Word of God and authoritative in all matters of faith; that "salvation is the result of genuine repentance of sin and faith in the atoning work of Christ"; and that the "church is composed of all believers in the Lord Jesus who have been vitally united by faith to Christ".
He did missionary work throughout Europe and North America. Charlotte Hanbury was a British missionary who ministered in Morocco. Sybil Jones was an American Quaker who did missionary work in North America, the West Indies, Europe, and the coast of Africa. Sybil Jones. Lindley Murray Hoag was a Quaker missionary throughout the United States and ...
Three missionaries from Barcelona founded the first overseas mission in 1882 near Rabaul on the island of New Britain in Papua, where the order began a mission at Yule Island in 1885. [ 4 ] In 1885, a supply base for the Papua New Guinea mission was founded in Sydney , Australia and the Australian Province was established in 1905. [ 5 ]
The Church's mission is to seek and save all who are lost in sin; the Church is the Body of Christ and consists of all people who accept Christ, regardless of Christian denomination. Divinely called and scripturally-ordained ministers serve the Church. Divine healing of the sick is provided for in the atonement.
Missionary work progressed on a large scale and with great success along the western coasts, chiefly at Chaul, Bombay, Salsette, Bassein, Damao, and Diu, as well as on the eastern coasts at San Thome of Mylapore as far as Bengal. In the southern districts the Jesuit mission in Madura was the most famous.