missionary

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We are called to be missionary disciples who go out and make disciples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

My grandpa retired at 70 after working as a missionary for most of his life and later at a national laboratory.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

Weston Port, the former San Juan Hills High standout linebacker, is finishing up his second year as a Mormon missionary on assignment in Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Born Robert Francis Prevost in the midwestern US city of Chicago, the pope worked for more than two decades as a missionary in Peru and obtained Peruvian citizenship in 2015.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

This time the messenger was a well-known Catholic bishop who had been doing missionary work when he ran into the rebels.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah