Mission

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Mission (from Latin missio 'the act of sending out') may refer to:

Organised activities

Religion

• Christian mission, an organized effort to spread Christianity
• Mission (LDS Church), an administrative area of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• The Christian Mission, the former name of the Salvation Army

Government and military

• Bolivarian missions, a series of social programs created during Hugo Chávez's rule of Venezuela
• Diplomatic mission, a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory
• Military operation
• Mission statement, a formal, short, written articulation of an organization's purpose
• Sortie or combat mission, a deployment or dispatch of a military unit
• Space mission, a journey of craft into outer space

Geography

Australia

• Mission River, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Cook and the Aboriginal Shire of Napranum
• Mission River (Queensland), a river in Australia

Canada

• Mission, British Columbia, a district municipality
• Mission, Calgary, Alberta, a neighbourhood
• Okanagan Mission, a neighbourhood in Kelowna, British Columbia, commonly called "the Mission"
• Mission River, a short river located at the delta of the Kaministiquia River of northern Ontario, Canada

United States

• Mission, Delaware
• Mission, Kansas
• Mission, Minnesota
• Mission, Oregon
• Mission, South Dakota
• Mission, Texas
• Mission District, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, commonly called "the Mission"
• South Pasadena station, formerly called Mission station
• Mission Viejo, California
• Mission River, a river in Texas, U.S.

Entertainment

Film and TV

• The Mission (1986 film), a drama film set in colonial South America
• Missions (TV series), a 2017 French science-fiction TV drama series

Music

• Mission (album), 2016 album by Japanese singer/songwriter Mari Hamada
• "Mission" (song), a song from the album Hold Your Fire by Rush
• "Mission", a song from the EP Van She by the Australian band Van She
• "The Mission", a song from the album Revenge by Janis Ian
• "Mission", a song by American rapper Jaden from his 2019 album ERYS

Other uses

• Mission, a British hi-fi manufacturer owned by International Audio Group
• Mission Foods, an American maker of tortillas and salsa, owned by Gruma
• Mission Hockey, hockey equipment manufacturer
• Mission (grape), a variety of grape
• Mission olive, a cultivar of olive developed in California

See also

• Mission Hills (disambiguation)
• Mission Style (disambiguation)
• La Mission (disambiguation)
• Old mission (disambiguation)
• The Mission (disambiguation)
• List of Spanish missions
• Spanish missions in California
• Timeline of Christian missions
• Missionary (disambiguation)