foreign mission in English
noun
1
a permanent office established by a nation to represent its interests in a foreign country.
Tu made the appeal when he met with more than a score of representatives from foreign missions at a seminar on the establishment of a pluralistic culture society.
2
a group sent by a church to live in a foreign country for a period of time, especially to seek converts.
As a young, southern Presbyterian minister, Sheppard longed for a missionary post in Africa, but the church's white-led foreign mission would send him only if he were accompanied by a white missionary, and that was hard to come by.
Use "foreign mission" in a sentence
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1. (Administrative officer working in a foreign mission)
2. The aim of the Synod consisted in enabling the church to get rid of the control of the foreign mission, and thereby to establish and develop indigenousness and united church in its proper sense.