missionary work
Spreading faith abroad
Missionary work is religious outreach—the effort to spread a faith to new believers, typically in foreign countries or underserved communities.
It combines evangelism with humanitarian service: building schools, digging wells, providing medical care.
She spent two years doing missionary work in Guatemala.
The term usually implies Christian activity, though other religions engage in similar efforts.
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- discipleshipState of following a teacher
- conversionAct of changing states
- church plantingEstablishing new religious communities
prayer · unreached peoples · proselytism · cross · Great Commission · gospel · baptism · language learning · native speaker · salvation · Bible translation · vocational training · scripture study · martyrdom · medical missions · home visit · foreign · spreading
- MissionariesDavid Livingstone, Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer, John Williams, Boniface
- Modern Religionevangelicalism, fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, New Age, Scientology
- LDS ChurchJoseph Smith, apostle, Brigham Young, bishop, priesthood
- LDS faithBook of Mormon, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, temple worship, priesthood
- churchnave, pew, pews, altar, altars
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
missionary workhumanitarian work
Efforts aiding those in crisis
relief work · social work · secular education · international development · philanthropy
missionary workapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
missionary workmonasticism
Cloistered religious living
contemplative life · hermitage · cloistered life · religious retreat · meditation