Mission

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Mission may refer to:

Contents 1 Religion 2 Tasks 3 Geography 4 Design and Architecture 5 Other uses 6 See also

[edit] Religion

• Mission (Christian), a Christian missionary movement or post
  • Mission (station), a base of missionary practice
• List of Spanish missions, various missions established by the Spanish in the New World (modern Latin America, mostly) both to spread Christianity and to oversee colonization
• Bolivarian Missions, a series of social programs created during Hugo Chávez's rule of Venezuela
• Mission (LDS Church), an administrative area of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

[edit] Tasks

• Combat mission, a military action
• Diplomatic mission, a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory
• Space mission, the launch of craft into outer space
  • List of human spaceflights, a list of manned space missions
• Mission statement, a brief statement of the purpose of an organization

[edit] Geography

United States

• Mission, California, former town in Yuba County
• Mission District, San Francisco, California, a neighborhood of San Francisco.
  • Mission High School (San Francisco, California), a high school there.
• Mission, Kansas
• Mission, Oregon
• Mission, South Dakota
• Mission, Texas
• Mission Ridge Ski Area, Washington
• Mission Mountains, Montana (and Mission Peak)
• Mission Peak, California

Canada

• Mission, British Columbia, a district municipality in British Columbia
• Mission, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta
• Okanagan Mission, a neighbourhood of Kelowna, British Columbia, locally known as "the Mission"
• Mission Ridge (British Columbia), a mountain ridge near Lillooet, BC, also known as Mission Mountain
  • Mission Peak (Canada), a peak on that ridge
  • Mission Pass, a pass on that ridge
• Mission Mountain, a mountain near Prince Rupert, British Columbia

Non-English-language equivalents:

Argentina

• Misiones Province

Paraguay

• Misiones Department

[edit] Design and Architecture

• Mission Revival Style architecture
• Mission Style

[edit] Other uses

• Captain Mission, an 18th century pirate and captain of The Republic of the Sea who founded a short-lived utopian society
• Mission bottle, a bottle in a pharmacy for an oral liquid drug given to a patient (as opposed to a stock bottle, which usually contains a bulk amount of liquid and is not to be given to patients)
• Mission (grape), a variety of grape
• Mission Hockey, an ice and roller hockey skates and equipment manufacturer
• Mission (song), a song by the band Rush, from the album Hold Your Fire
• Mission Vao, a character in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Mission, British manufacturer of loudspeakers now owned by International Audio Group

[edit] See also

• The Mission, a disambiguation page
• Indigenous church mission theory
• Missionary
• www.imissionyou.com

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