Mission
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Mission may refer to:
Agriculture
- Mission (grape), a variety of grape
- Mission (olive), a variety of olive
- Mission fig, a variety of fig
Government and military
- Bolivarian Missions, series of social programs created during Hugo Chávez's rule of Venezuela
- Diplomatic mission, a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory
- Space mission, the launch of craft into outer space
- Sortie or combat mission, a deployment or dispatch of a military unit
Media
- "Mission", song from the album Hold Your Fire by Rush
- Combat Mission, series of computer games simulating tactical battles
- The Mission, 1986 drama film, set in colonial South America
Places
- Mission, British Columbia, Canada; district municipality
- Mission, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; neighbourhood
- Mission, California, US; former town in Yuba County
- Mission, Delaware, US
- Mission, Kansas, US
- Mission, Oregon, US
- Mission, South Dakota, US
- Mission, Texas, US
- Okanagan Mission, a neighbourhood in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, commonly called "the Mission"
- Mission District, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., commonly called "the Mission"
- South Pasadena (Los Angeles Metro station), formerly called Mission station
- Mission Viejo, California, US; city in Orange County
Religion
- Christian mission, an organized effort to spread Christianity
- Mission (station), a base of missionary practice
- Mission (LDS Church), administrative area of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Other uses
- Mission, a British hi-fi manufacturer owned by International Audio Group
- Mission statement, a formal, short, written articulation of an organization's value proposition
- Mission-style furniture, originated in the late 19th century
See also
- Military operation
- Indigenous church mission theory, in which foreign missionaries create well-organised churches and then hand them over to local converts
- La Mission (disambiguation)
- The Mission (disambiguation)
- List of Spanish missions
- Timeline of Christian missions
- Missionary (disambiguation)
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