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A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, the goal of its operations: what kind of product or service it provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of operation.
A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith. Missions involve sending individuals and groups across boundaries, most commonly geographical boundaries.
Missiology is the academic study of the Christian mission history and methodology. It began to be developed as an academic discipline in the 19th century.
Nov 13, 2010 · The term “mission” was first used to describe Christian evangelization in the sixteenth century, probably by Ignatius of Loyola. The theological sub-discipline missiology dates from the nineteenth century.
- Paul Kollman
- 2011
An Overview of the History of Missions. (Based on Ralph Winter, The Kingdom Strikes Back: Ten Epochs of Redemptive History in Perspectives on the World Christian Movement) Phase One: 1 – 400 Romans. Possibly Paul's work in Galatia established contacts with Gauls in the West and with other peoples in the northwest of Europe.
Roman Catholic missions, both white and Indigenous, were generously subsidized by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, founded at Lyon in 1822. Before the middle of the 19th century, Canadian churches were sponsoring missionaries overseas.
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