missionary society
Religious outreach group
A missionary society is an organization that supports religious outreach, typically by funding, training, or sending missionaries to spread a faith in foreign lands or underserved communities.
Most are Christian, established to evangelize and often to provide education or medical care: The missionary society built schools throughout West Africa.
Some are arms of denominations; others operate independently.
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- proselytismAttempting to convert others
- unreached peoplesGroups without indigenous believers
church planting · translation · funding · relief · adaptation · denomination · clergy · scripture · Bible translation · discipleship · indigenous knowledge · orphanage · partnership · faith · healthcare · theology · colonialism · membership
- missionschurch planting, apostle, convert, apostleship, evangelization
- parish ministriesyouth group, prayer group, religious education, prayer ministry, campus ministry
- charitiesRed Cross, food bank, food banks, homeless shelter, homeless shelters
- MissionariesDavid Livingstone, Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer, John Williams, Boniface
- religious institutionschurch, cathedral, temple, synagogue, monastery
- Anglican ChurchAnglicanism, bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England, parish
missionary societyparish church
Local community worship building
home church · local parish · monastic community · hermitage · established church
missionary societyQuaker meeting
Silent communal religious service
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