Quotes & Sayings About Sending Missionaries

The Papacy attempted to deal with this movement by sending out missionaries, originally Dominicans in 1240, and then Franciscans a century later, in 1340. But it was only in the mid-fifteenth century that the campaign to uproot the heresy began to really bear fruit, and those local Church leaders who refused to recant were forced to emigrate. But despite this, a legacy of Bogomil influence was left in which the local Church was not closely linked to the Papacy, and this was to sow the seeds of future problems.[2] — Donal Anthony Foley

The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages. — Chinua Achebe

Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world - somewhere between India and the United States. Who's sending missionaries to that country? Who's planting churches there? — Phil Cooke