Mission

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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. It can also mean a school or other institution founded for religious education and/or evangelization.

[edit] Religion

• Mission (Christian), a Christian missionary movement or post
  • Mission (station), a base of missionary practice
• List of Spanish missions, various missions established by the Spanish in the New World (modern Latin America, mostly) both to spread Christianity and to oversee colonization
• Bolivarian Missions, a series of social programs created during Hugo Chávez's rule of Venezuela
• Mission (LDS Church), an administrative area, often based on geographic regions, of proselytizing or service assignments by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Missionary (LDS Church)
  • Mission president, a priesthood leadership position LDS Church
• The Canadian residential school system for aboriginal children; individual schools were often known as "the Mission", for example, the namesake of Mission, British Columbia

[edit] Tasks

• Combat mission, a military action
• Diplomatic mission, a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory
• Space mission, the launch of craft into outer space
  • List of human spaceflights, a list of manned space missions
• Mission statement, a brief statement of the purpose of an organization

[edit] Geography

United States

• Mission District, San Francisco, California, a neighborhood of San Francisco.
  • Mission High School (San Francisco, California), a high school there.
• Mission, Kansas
• Mission, Oregon
• Mission, South Dakota
• Mission, Texas
• Mission Ridge Ski Area, Washington

Canada

• Mission, British Columbia, a district municipality in British Columbia
• Mission, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta
• Okanagan Mission, a neighbourhood of Kelowna, British Columbia, locally known as "the Mission"

Non-English-language equivalents:

Argentina

• Misiones Province

Brazil

• Missões, Brazil, a region of Rio Grande do Sul roughly occupying the same area previously dominated by the colonial missions founded by Padre Roque Gonzales
  • São Miguel das Missões, one of the best preserved of the old colonial missions
  • Guarani das Missões
  • São Paulo das Missões
  • Campina das Missões

Paraguay

• Misiones Department

See also: La Misión

[edit] Other uses

• Captain Mission, an 18th century pirate and captain of The Republic of the Sea who founded a short-lived utopian society
• Mission bottle, a bottle in a pharmacy for an oral liquid drug given to a patient (as opposed to a stock bottle, which usually contains a bulk amount of liquid and is not to be given to patients)
• Mission (grape), a variety of grape
• Mission Hockey, an ice and roller hockey skates and equipment manufacturer
• Mission (song), a song by the band Rush, from the album Hold Your Fire
• Mission Vao, a character in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Mission, British manufacturer of loudspeakers now owned by International Audio Group

[edit] See also

• Indigenous church mission theory
• Missionary

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