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- noun Plural form of
missionary .
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Examples
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Group #1: (Singing in foreign language) MIROFF: The church was founded in the 1950s by Pentecostal missionaries from the U.S. who arrived just before Fidel Castro's revolution.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Group #1: (Singing in foreign language) MIROFF: The church was founded in the 1950s by Pentecostal missionaries from the U.S. who arrived just before Fidel Castro's revolution.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Group #1: (Singing in foreign language) MIROFF: The church was founded in the 1950s by Pentecostal missionaries from the U.S. who arrived just before Fidel Castro's revolution.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Group #1: (Singing in foreign language) MIROFF: The church was founded in the 1950s by Pentecostal missionaries from the U.S. who arrived just before Fidel Castro's revolution.
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And no one should openly advocate being “just like Tim Tebow” off the field, since the history of Christian missionaries is gruesome and bloody.
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(Soundbite of music) Unidentified Group #1: (Singing in foreign language) MIROFF: The church was founded in the 1950s by Pentecostal missionaries from the U.S. who arrived just before Fidel Castro's revolution.
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The history of Christian missions, after all, is the chronicle of Western missionaries and their exploits, and the notion of missionaries from the East preaching to a godless Europe is the stuff of creative fiction.
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The latter, actually assigning willing new missionaries, is what we are proposing.
How new missionaries choose their country of service: do we need a change? 2008
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One American who counseled me on Burma is descended from several generations of Baptist missionaries from the Midwest who ministered to the hill tribes beginning in the late 19th century.
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Sexual sins were addressed loudly and regularly from the pul pits, especially by women preachers, whom we called missionaries.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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