Missionaries are typically between the ages of 19-25, but can also include senior-aged couples.

Missionaries who will not be learning a language in order to serve their missions spend three weeks at an MTC where they practice using proselytizing materials, learn expected conduct, and study the scriptures.

Missionaries bound for foreign-language missions spend eight to thirteen weeks at an MTC, depending on the language to be learned.

Alternative TV soon evolved into the avant-garde project, The Good Missionaries ( taking the name from a track on the ' Vibing ' album ), releasing one album, Fire From Heaven in 1979.

Music groups such as the Black Missionaries have become one of the most popular reggae bands in Malawi.

He was hosted by one of the Missionaries of his youth, a man who had taught the youthful Hassan in Rayy.

At the height of the Moro raids, the Recollect Missionaries gave up the island of Mindoro in 1776 for several reasons: one of which was the lack of personnel brought about by the raiders who either kill or capture for ransom the helpless missionaries.

Missionaries in Africa often required converted men to abandon all but one of their wives, leaving the other women and children without the support of a husband-and thus creating immense social and economic problems.

Se-yang keaoxi, is one which has been of late adopted by the enemies of that religion in China, instead of the phrase employed by the Catholic Missionaries, viz.

There he again met Claude Bret, who was to become his friend and also one of the first Marist Missionaries.

He is one of the founding Missionaries in the Northern Philippines.

The Missionaries of the Precious Blood form a community of priests and brothers within the Latin Church, one of the 23 sui iuris churches which make up the universal Catholic Church.

Missionaries do not go on vacation and are generally permitted to telephone their parents only on Christmas Day, and one other day of the year, usually Mother's Day.

As members of a religious congregation the Missionaries Oblates of Mary Immaculate embrace the evangelical counsels, taking the three traditional religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

Inaugurated in 2008 and expected to continue indefinitely, the Young Vincentian Mission sends Fifth Year students ( four in 2008, with two teachers ) to work and live with the Vincentian community in Ambo, Ethiopia, for two to three weeks each July, overseen by the VLM-Vincentian Lay Missionaries.

His most influential work is " Missionaries and Modern China " which went through three editions in Chinese.

On March 13, 1997, six months before Mother Teresa's death, Sister Mary Nirmala Joshi was selected the new Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity.

This building which is still existing was the Library of Mr. Gunaratne who had died about seven months before the arrival of the Missionaries in Galle.

A local landmark is Eltham College, a private school founded in 1842 as the London Missionary Society's School for the Sons of Missionaries, which moved to its present site in Mottingham in 1912.

His faith in the Lord and trust for Africa lead him to establish, in 1867 and 1872 respectively, two missionary Institutes of men and of women: these become known more widely as the " Comboni Missionaries " and the " Comboni Missionary Sisters ", also known as the " Verona Fathers and Sisters ".

Missionaries sent by the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society provided the King with foreign affairs counsel and helped to facilitate the purchase of modern weapons.

Though women are not ordained, they are licenced as social, senior, and field Missionaries through the organization's International Missionary Department.

Missionaries from countries outside the US where there is not a Missionary Training Center in their own country attend the MTC of the country closest to them.

' The Missionary Ideals of Manuel da Nobrega ", Jesuit Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Chroniclers, Geographers, Educators and Missionaries in the Americas, 1549-1767.

The school dates back to 1842 when it was founded as the London Missionary Society's School for the Sons and Orphans of Missionaries.

* Varg, Paul A. Missionaries, Chinese, and Diplomats: The American Protestant Missionary Movement in China, 1890-1952 ( 1958 )

There is also the Iloilo Mission Hospital, which was founded by American Protestant Missionaries in 1901 as the first mission and Protestant hospital in the country, Iloilo Doctor's Hospital, West Visayas State University Medical Center ( formerly the Don Benito Lopez Memorial Hospital ), Amosup Seamen's Hospital ; the Western Visayas Medical Center, St. Therese Hospital, The Medical City – Iloilo ( formerly Saviour International Hospital ) and Western Visayas Medical Center.

Franciscan Missionaries, Fathers Angel Somera and Pedro Cambon, founded the original Mission San Gabriel Arcangel on September 8, 1771, near where San Gabriel Boulevard now crosses the Rio Hondo, which is also near the present day Sanchez Adobe Mansion.

His association with the Catholic organisation Communion and Liberation, led to his participation in their 2007 festival in Rimini, where he spoke at a meeting about the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo.

While in common usage the terms nun and sister are often used interchangeably, in some cases they are differentiated, a nun being a religious woman who lives a contemplative cloistered life of meditation and prayer for the salvation of others, while a sister, in Christian orders like Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, lives an active vocation of prayer and service, often to the needy, sick, poor, and uneducated.

Missionaries at Te Awamutu told the Kīngitanga they would be considered rebels by the government after they refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Crown.

Missionaries from North America who have visa difficulties still attend the Provo MTC first, and temporarily serve in areas of the United States while they get their visas.

Missionaries were not reluctant to take military action if they considered it an effective way to Christianize Japan.

" They are the ones who told her before she left Australia she was coming to the mission, coming to Mother Teresa Sisters, and then when they brought her, they left her at the Mother Teresa Sisters, Missionaries of Charity.

Missionaries working in the South were especially displeased with slave retention of African practices such as polygamy and what they called idolatrous dancing.

Missionaries can be sent home for violating mission rules, and occasionally missionaries choose to go home because of unhappiness or because they " lost their testimony " ( meaning they no longer believe in the church or have serious doubts about it ).

Missionaries are instructed to avoid slang and casual language including when they are alone in their apartment and in their letters to family.

Missionaries were often instructed to adhere very closely to the six lessons, and they frequently quoted segments word-for-word ( an especially helpful practice when learning a foreign language ).

Missionaries are asked to bring extra personal money for any personal items they would like to purchase.

Missionaries are also encouraged to use their time outside class to actively study church scripture and doctrine, and a language if necessary.

Missionaries to New France, such as Jacques Gravier, studied with the natives at Sillery to learn their languages before going to more distant settlements.