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A '''mission''', from the Latin ''missum'' (English: ''sent''), is a specific task, often [[religious]], which a person or group has been charged with or adopts as their main purpose. It can also mean a school or other institution founded for religious education and/or evangelization. See also [[missionary]], a related word in a religious context.
The mission of an organization is often stated explicitly in a [[mission statement]].
===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, often based on geographic regions, of proselytizing or service assignments by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
** [[Missionary (LDS Church)]]
** [[Mission president]], a priesthood leadership position LDS Church
* Most [[Canadian residential school system|Canadian residential schools]] for aboriginal children were known as "the Mission"; one such is the namesake of [[Mission, British Columbia]], another of [[Okanagan Mission]] in [[Kelowna, British Columbia]]
===Politics and government===
* [[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.
* [[Combat mission]], a military action.
===Other===
* [[Mission statement]], a brief statement of the purpose of an organization
* [[Mission (slang)]], a slang term often used to describe a task or objective of which is considered difficult by the user
'''Mission may''' also refer to:
==Geography==
In the '''United States''':
*[[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]]
In '''Canada''':
*[[Mission, British Columbia]], a district municipality in British Columbia
*[[Mission, Calgary]], a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta
*[[Okanagan Mission]], a neighbourhood of Kelowna BC, is locally known as "the Mission"
Non-English-language equivalents:
In [[Argentina]]
*[[Misiones Province]]
In '''Brazil''':
* [[Missões, Brazil]], a region of [[Rio Grande do Sul]] in Brazil roughly occupying the same area previously dominated by the colonial missions founded by Padre Roque Gonzales.
** [[São Miguel das Missões]], one of the best preserved of the old colonial missions.
** [[Guarani das Missões]]
** [[São Paulo das Missões]]
** [[Campina das Missões]]
In [[Paraguay]]
*[[Misiones Department]]
See also:
*[[La Misión]]
==Other uses==
* Mission, the previous name of the music group currently known as "Crown City Rockers."
* [[Mission Vao]], a character in the video game ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic''.
* [[Mission (grape)]], a variety of grape.
* [[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).
* [[International Audio Group|Mission]] British manufacturer of loudspeakers now owned by IAG
* [[Mission Hockey|Mission (hockey)]], an ice and roller hockey skates and equipment manufacturer
* [[Captain Mission]], an 18th century pirate [['''spaduti''']] and captain of ''The Republic of the Sea'' who founded a short-lived utopian society.
==See also==
*[[Indigenous church mission theory]]
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