Mission

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Mission may refer to:

Agriculture

• Mission (grape), a variety of grape
• Mission (olive),

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
• Space mission, the launch of craft into outer space
• Sortie or combat mission, a deployment or dispatch of a military unit

Media

• "Mission", a song from the album Hold Your Fire by Rush
• Combat Mission, a series of computer games simulating tactical battles
• The Mission, a 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, US, commonly called "the Mission"
• South Pasadena (Los Angeles Metro station), formerly called Mission station
• Mission Viejo, California, US; a city in Orange County

Religion

• Christian mission, an organized effort to spread Christianity
• Mission (station), a base of missionary practice
• Mission (LDS Church), an 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 Foods, an American maker of tortillas and salsa, owned by Gruma
• 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)