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An adult male mission president presides over the missionaries in the mission. Most missions are divided into several zones , a zone being a geographic area specified by the mission president (though these are often the same area as the LDS ecclesiastical unit known as a "stake").
1925 – Daniel Fleming published Whither Bound in Missions (YMCA Press), challenging the over-emphasis on conversions. Missions should instead focus on fighting evils such as materialism, racial injustice, war and poverty. [353] [354] 1925 – E. Stanley Jones, Methodist missionary to India, writes The Christ of the Indian Road [355]
A few missions were discontinued with the formation of two or more missions in its place. Occasionally missions will be discontinued as a result of government restrictions, military conflict and/or other issues affecting the safety of missionaries serving in the area. All missions include the word "Mission" as part of their name.
1843 Free Church of Scotland Missions; 1843 Primitive Methodist African and Colonial Missions; 1843 Methodist New Connexion in England Foreign Missions; 1844 South American Missionary Society; 1847 Presbyterian Church in England Foreign Missions; 1858 Christian Vernacular Education Society for India; 1860 Central African Mission of the English ...
S. Scandinavian Alliance Mongolian Mission; School of Missions Mobilization; SEND International; Servants to Asia's Urban Poor; Leonard Sharp (doctor) The Sheo Yang Mission
Christian Aid Mission; Christian mission to Jews; Christian Missionary Fellowship International; Frontier missions; Christianity and colonialism; Church of Ireland and Methodist Chaplaincy, Belfast; Church Pastoral Aid Society; Church planting; City Mission; Clown ministry; Colonial Missionary Society; Contextual theology; Council for World Mission
The organization as it is known today was formed in 1971 through the merger of Far Eastern Gospel Crusade and Central Alaskan Missions. Central Alaskan Missions was founded in New Jersey in 1937 by Vincent James Joy, a graduate of Moody Bible Institute with a burden for missionary outreach among the Ahtna people of Alaska's Copper River Valley.
The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (Latin: Ordo initiationis christianae adultorum), or OCIA, is a process developed by the Catholic Church for its catechumenate for prospective converts to the Catholic faith above the age of infant baptism. Candidates are gradually introduced to aspects of Catholic beliefs and practices.
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