Mission Society

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Mission societies are institutions that aim to send out missionaries . In the following, no distinction is whether the missionary work done in other cultures and religions, formerly known as Gentiles - Mission designated, or if this in their own culture or even as evangelism is done in one's own or related religious communities, for example with the Revival Mission and the Mission Werner Heukelbach or connected with social services to the neighbor , such as the works of the Inner Mission, for example the Hamburg city mission or the station mission . In some works, both tasks are mixed. The focus of the list is on the Outer Mission .

Mission associations

Church assignment

The term sometimes has different meanings in the churches:

Catholic (in selection)

Mission Order

In general, all religious mission orders or mission institutes for secular priests :

Missionaries

Especially those mission institutes , secular institutes or similar institutions that have emerged since the middle of the 19th century:

Evangelical (selection)

In the Protestant churches it means associations that support the mission. One of the oldest is the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, established in London in 1698 . In the 19th century in particular , numerous nationally organized mission societies came into being, which came together in the International Mission Council in 1921 and in the World Council of Churches in 1961 . In 1971 the Evangelical Mission Organization was founded in Germany as an umbrella organization .

Regional church

Free Church

Non-denominational

Ecumenical

Numerous mission associations have been founded to support the mission societies since the 19th century .

See also

literature

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