"The whole idea of mission creep is inevitable," Dr. Anderson said.
"Forced landmarking has the effect of imposing the governmental idea of mission on the congregation," the church's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Robert L. Brashear, said in an interview on Wednesday.
Beijing has hit back, with one of its top envoys dismissing such ideas as "mission impossible... even for a thousand years".
His presence at technology events, while just a sliver of his time, is indicative of a giant idea-scouting mission that has in some sense been going on for years but is now Mr. Page's main job.
"Our eyes lit up with the possibilities, but we had to fight off the temptations of good ideas or mission creep would have killed our deadlines," said Matt Bereda, Lenovo's VP, Global Consumer Marketing, (PCs, Tablets, AR/VR and Smart Devices).
"It's focused around public service media and the idea of mission-driven output," he says, although he also acknowledges that "users don't really make a distinction between public media and private media content," so in effect that could mean the funding is open to anyone with a good new media idea.
Acceptance for our ideas and mission by prospective customers has been, and will continue to be, overwhelming.
In one mission idea, which was later cut, you had to go around burning churches.
Another four years of Barack Obama would put America itself, the very idea, purpose and mission of it, in peril.
"The idea that the mission statement would be desecrated like that was shocking," Victoria Sobel, a senior, who is among the occupiers, said in an interview, via cell phone.
I've spoken to UK officials since who've said: 'We had no real idea what this mission was meant to do.
