Foreign Missions - Gaikokudendou

Japanese: 外国伝道 - がいこくでんどう
Foreign Missions - Gaikokudendou

…a position in which a Christian church is dispatched for foreign missionary work. In the narrow sense, it refers to pastors and priests dispatched to foreign churches, but in the broad sense, it also refers to those who work in education or social welfare work, and ordinary believers who are dispatched by the church to work in such work.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "foreign missionary work" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…キリスト教会が外国伝道のために派遣する職務。狭義には牧師,司祭で外国教会に派遣された者をいうが,広義には教育や社会福祉事業に従事する者,一般信徒で教会から派遣されて,そうした事業に携わる者のことをもいう。…

※「外国伝道」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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