The missionary zeal of community colleges in the 1960s is still needed to meet the challenges they still face today: helping underserved and underprepared students succeed, and offering a strong general education curriculum that provides the foundation and framework for later academic and professional success. Even as economic, social, and political conditions change, community colleges can and must still provide national leadership in helping more students achieve success, guiding unsuccessful students to alternatives that will allow them to be successful, and preparing students for meaningful citizenship. As a mature system of higher education, one that still enrolls the greatest number of minority and low income students, there is still much work to be done and perhaps as much need for missionary zeal as there ever was--but with a very different focus. In this article, the author focuses on the community college mission as it enters the second decade of the new millennium and suggests issues to be addressed that warrant the kind of missionary zeal typical of an earlier time in the history of community colleges. These issues, in the author's opinion, relate closely with the emerging emphasis on student completion.