Sentence examples for establishing missions from inspiring English sources

They moved northward, establishing missions throughout California to just north of San Francisco Bay.

With another missionary, Samuel Parker, he was sent to investigate the possibilities for establishing missions in Oregon country, then jointly occupied by the United States and Great Britain.

At first they settled peacefully on land granted them by the local populace, some of them establishing mission communities.

Conroy-Krutz examines how the ABCFM's concept of Christian imperialism shifted as its evangelists experienced the challenges of establishing mission stations throughout the world.

Jesuits established missions in Japan, China, and India.

Interned by the Spanish authorities, he obtained his release by leading an expedition party to establish missions in Texas.

The slave trade was abolished after Europeans arrived in the 19th century and established missions in the area.

In the 17th century the Jesuits established missions (reducciones) in eastern Paraguay among the Guaraní of the Paraná River.

Portuguese supremacy was on the wane, and de Rhodes hoped to establish missions there, free of Portuguese political domination and controlled by the church without intermediaries.

The AMA itself was incorporated in 1846 by the merger of three missionary antislavery societies whose goal was to establish missions for freed slaves overseas.

The Anglican church established missions early in the 20th century at many settlements, including Pangnirtung (Panniqtuuq), on the northern shore of the sound.