missionary , ** , also: mish informal

They also had to pay the support of 150 missionaries.

Many years ago the missionaries told my mother about you.

Some of the young people who heard her wanted to become missionaries.

As of 2009 the society has missionaries in 76 countries.

Missionaries have worked in the country for more than 20 years.

From then until 1838 five more missionaries were put to death.

Many of their missionaries and members had worked as teachers in the South.

Missionaries can be found in many countries around the world.

So the missionaries started a community development project to help meet those felt needs.

At home they would read the stories of missionaries and their work.

One of the missionaries there told him all she knew.

"In the past these people would have been missionaries or started a church," he said.

"It is we missionaries who came here to bring them up through education."

He told of the great need for missionaries in Africa.

She runs away home and is taken under care by missionaries.

The president at the time, decided no western missionaries could stay in the country.

If anything, the play, the center and the missionaries are about faith.

Catholic missionaries did set up schools, with the help from the government.

Meanwhile the two missionaries had been well taken care of.

Word of Life currently has 695 missionaries working around the world.

But the missionaries came from Europe to stop us doing all that.

Many missionaries were forced to leave China in the following years.

The church was built by French missionaries between 1893 and 1898.

In 1966 all foreign missionaries were forced to leave the country.

"Yet it was nine years since the coming of the missionaries."

Look particularly at anything to do with missionary work and see how they approach it.

"This will be essentially missionary work for the next three years."

While in America, she was called upon to make many missionary addresses.

So "missionary position" is probably not the term of art for what's going on.

Since its beginning in 1942, it has educated not only missionary kids but children from all over the world.

As of 2011 there are 15 missionary training centers throughout the world.

In 1832 he was one of five from the school to act as missionary helper.

The phrase called to serve is associated with missionary work.

He started missionary work inside China in 1622, but allegedly his success was limited.

With her husband she undertook missionary work in China for five years.

In fact, is missionary work actually a bad thing?

He has an almost missionary sense of America's role.

He requested missionary work, but that request was turned down.

Historically, this has been evident in educational and especially missionary work.

To them missionary work was an enormous and valuable extension of their activities.

Alfred says that they do missionary work to wake up spirits.

Stevenson also made six missionary journeys, for up to five years at a time.

In the same year, 345 missionary personnel were reported.

In 1549, he landed at Kagoshima and started missionary work.

However, Elijah had been wanting to leave for a while because missionary work is "part of him".

He reports that James undertook missionary work in the area and lived to a great age.

Although missionary work was certainly undertaken, learning enjoyed a still higher priority.

This was unusual for the day as most missionary schools were not usually headed by Asians.

They approach strangers on the street in a type of missionary cold call known as a "fearless."

Justin sent three missionary priests to Brazil to open a community there.