What is Missionary?
[[Image:Charles Wesley.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Charles Wesley]] is a well known ''missionary''.]] A '''missionary''' is a person who tries to [[Religious conversion|convert]] people to his own [[faith]]. In [[Christianity]], this is called [[Christian mission]] or [[evangelism]]. Missionaries are usually sent from [[church]]es or worship places of the religion. They can also do other things, such as deliver [[medicine]]s and cure [[disease]]s. Most major religions of the [[world]] have ''missionaries''. Some famous Christian missionaries are: *[[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]] *[[Thomas the Apostle]] *[[Saint Patrick]] *[[Saints Cyril and Methodius]] *[[Francis Xavier]] *[[Johnny Appleseed]] *[[George Muller]] *[[John Wesley]] *[[Charles Wesley]], brother of John *[[George Whitefield]] *[[David Livingstone]] *[[Hudson Taylor]] *[[Florence Nightingale]] *[[Sadhu Sundar Singh]] *[[Albert Schweitzer]] *[[Gladys Aylward]] *[[Eric Liddell]] *[[E. Stanley Jones]] *[[Mother Teresa]] ==Related pages== *[[Evangelism]] *[[Religious conversion]] == Other websites == *[http://www.missionaries.org/ Missionaries.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509091453/http://www.missionaries.org/ |date=2008-05-09 }} {{Catholic Church ranks}} [[Category:Missionaries| ]] [[Category:Christian religious occupations]] {{religion-stub}}