Missionary

===Tenrikyo missions===
[[Tenrikyo]] conducts missionary work in approximately forty countries.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000818090025/http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_tenrikyo.html Largest Tenrikyo Communities]. Adherents.com (2000-03-23). Retrieved on 2011-01-19.</ref>  Its first missionary was a woman named, Kokan, who worked on the streets of Osaka.<ref>{{cite book|author1=James H. Charlesworth |author2=Petr Pokorný |author3=Brian Rhea |title=Jesus Research: An International Perspective: The First Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research, Prague 2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xbXP_e5gJqwC&pg=PA242 |access-date=19 January 2011 |date=15 September 2009 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=978-0-8028-6353-9 |pages=242–}}</ref> In 2003, it operated approximately twenty thousand mission stations worldwide.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Evangelical Missiological Society |author2=Jon Bonk |title=Between past and future: Evangelical Mission entering the twenty-first century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrBZYdHfYGoC&pg=PA254 |access-date=19 January 2011 |date=31 January 2003 |publisher=William Carey Library |isbn=978-0-87808-384-8 |pages=254–}}</ref>