USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Missionaries go into a community to teach about Jesus Christ and the Christian faith. Missionary work depends on where the individual or group of missionaries are going (international or local communities). At the very least, a missionary’s first responsibility is to God, then to his or her church or missions agency.

Detailed explanation-2: -The natives lived in the missions until their religious training was complete. Then, they would move to homes outside of the missions. Once the natives converted to Christianity, the missionaries would move on to new locations, and the existing missions served as churches.

Detailed explanation-3: -By the later 1700s the permanent Indian residents of the San Antonio missions were speaking Spanish, living as devoted Catholics, and even intermarrying with the local Hispanics. Other Indians, both local and from elsewhere, had become part of the town itself.

Detailed explanation-4: -Perhaps the most lasting cultural impact of the missionaries has come through their contributions to Bible translation and education. By translating the Bible into the language of a non-European people, missionaries had to become pupils, learning the finer points of a local language from indigenous teachers.