MISSION

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Definitions

1. a group granted the privilege of delivering elementary Scn and Dn services. Does not have church status or rights. (BTB 12 Apr 72R)

2. (1) a single field or locality covered by missionary work; the body of missionaries there established; a missionary station. (2) a regularly organized church and congregation not having the status of a parish. (BPL 24 Sept 73 I-1)

3. forming org. (BPL 31 Mar 71R)

4. the purpose of a mission is to get new people in and up the lines to orgs. (CBO 144)

5. any legally chartered Scn field activity will be properly designated only as Mission of the Church of Scientology. A mission is a ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propagate its faith or carry on humanitarian work. In Scn, this commission is the right to constitute a mission for a certain district or territory and to use the name Applied Philosophy, Scientology, and Dianetics. The powers granted are those to be a group of people, dedicated to a common purpose, acting as a single unit to forward Scn and Dn in a certain area. (BPL 20 Sept 71R I)

6. standard mimeo distribution symbol. Missions receive (for a small fee) technological materials up to their level of classification. The Mission Officer WW keeps one copy of an issue for his files and sends one copy to each Mission Director. (BPL 14 Apr 69R)

7. the word mission may now be used to designate only a Sea Org official mission. It has unlimited ethics powers. Their members are called "missionaires." (HCO PL 15 Sept 68)

8. a mission could be defined for our use as a formally authorized individual or group sent to perform a specific task or duty sent by Operations. That would require, then, personnel selection, training, briefing, Mission Orders, dispatch and full admin. The difference between an errand and a mission is that missions are sent by an Operations Officer, errands are sent by anyone else. When an "errand" involves more than one day it should be handled by Operations, not by some other division. It then becomes a mission. (FO 2530R)

9. to handle downstat orgs and areas the Sea Org simply gets in ethics. This is done in such a way as to enable that org or area to get in tech, which makes it possible then for them to get in admin. In order to do this we send out missions. These have unlimited ethics powers and enough force to accomplish their purpose of getting in ethics. (FO 228)

10. a mission consists of a missionaire trained officer and missionaire trained personnel. (FO 1802)

11. a group granted the privilege of delivering elementary Scn and Dn services. Does not have Church status or rights. (BTB 12 Apr 72R)