Many records and some suggestive studies of the foundations, motivations, dynamics, techniques, and sociocultural effects of missionary activity in specific locales exist. Most of them are written from the perspective of the missionaries or are based...

Organized effort to spread the Christian faith. St. Paul evangelized much of Asia Minor and Greece, and the new religion spread rapidly along the trade routes of the Roman Empire. The advance of Christianity slowed with the disintegration of the Roman...

Part of the accountability language of the 1980s and 1990s. Every educational institution should have a mission—i.e. a list of aims and strategies for achieving them which could be expressed as a ‘mission...

A mission statement is a statement of an organization’s purpose or...

A mission, from the Latin missum (English: sent), is a specific task, often religious, which a person or group has been charged with or adopts as their main purpose. See also missionary, a related word in a religious context. The mission of an...