Christian missions
Spreading the faith
Christian missions are organized efforts to spread Christianity to non-believers, typically in foreign lands.
Missionaries establish churches, schools, and hospitals while evangelizing local populations.
The practice has shaped global history, intertwining with colonialism, cultural exchange, and humanitarian work: She devoted her life to Christian missions in Southeast Asia.
Mission trips—short-term visits for service and evangelism—remain common among Protestant churches.
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- Great CommissionCommand to evangelize globally
- conversionAct of changing states
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- unreached peoplesGroups without indigenous believers
contextualization · church planting · medical missions · testimony · translation · witnessing · cultural sensitivity · mentoring · souls · language acquisition · native speakers · evangelism · sending · prayer partners · tent making · charity · unreached · revival
- Modern ChristianityVatican II, ecumenism, evangelicalism, liberation theology, Billy Graham
- African historyNubia, Dahomey, Oyo Empire, Scramble for Africa, scramble for Africa
- Catholic monasticismabbeys, abbots, abbesses, brothers, sisters
- Sengoku Japandaimyo, samurai, Tokugawa Ieyasu, feudal lords, warlords
- Assam historyAssam
- Gabon HistoryFrench colonization, colonial era, single-party rule, democratic reforms, coup attempts
Christian missionsPeace Corps
Federal volunteer service abroad
Doctors Without Borders · international development · Red Cross · UNICEF · humanitarian assistance
Christian missionsdeconversion
Abandoning religious belief
secularism · religious persecution · secularization · apostasy · irreligion