The Memorial Road Church of Christ in Edmond, Okla., just completed its 10th Missions Sunday. In the past decade, church members have contributed more than $6 million to mission efforts around the globe — including Kenya, Australia, Austria and Brazil. The church supports medical missions in Guatemala, multiple ministries in Honduras, the Give A Goat ministry that serves the Philippines and sponsors a ministry apprentice program called Helpers in Missions.

Happy Cyber Monday. If you are scouring the Internet for great holiday values, you might want to stop by a few of these websites for Christmas gifts that benefit missions: Chickens and goats: Bread for a Hungry World is an international relief and development ministry supported by church members. The ministry takes donations for child sponsorships and a number of programs to help folks in Latin America and other regions with sustainable development projects. This year you can buy T-shirts that help send chickens to Honduras and goats to the Philippines. A donation of $20 gets you a T-shirt.

“So what’s it like over there?” That’s a question Alan and Rachel Howell hear every so often from their friends in America. So, in a recent blog post, the missionaries in Montepuez, Mozambique, detail a week in their lives.

The Tubungu Church of Christ meets on the campus of African Christian College. During a Sunday night worship service, I shot video of one of the students preaching. His style was anything but “softy-soft” (as you hear him explain in the video above) and he made some good points about the need for Christians to live lives of prayer. He also tells a story about his grandfather, who at one time was ill and went to traditional healers. When that didn’t work, a group of Christians prayed for him and his health improved.

Dr. John Bailey was honored Oct. 10 as Abilene Christian University’s Outstanding Alumnus of the Year. Bailey (ACU class of ’57), a dentist, is the founder of Body and Soul Ministries, a nonprofit that provides medical, dental and optical care to people who would otherwise go untreated. The dentist has served souls around the globe, but in recent years he has concentrated much of his work in the Philippines.

“Where are you from?” For Third Culture Kids, that’s a tough question to answer. That’s what Cherry Hart told me yesterday during an interview here on the campus of Oklahoma Christian University. Hart and her husband, Clay, are hosting a camp called Global Reunion through Sunday. About 70 campers are here now — representing Chile, the Philippines, Brazil, Chad and even Bosnia. Most are the children of missionaries and were born and raised on foreign soil. Well, to us it’s foreign soil anyway. To them, it’s home.

With all the usual activity of our latest print deadline (and the breaking news from Ghana) I didn’t have time to post news of my recent visit with Tia Misa. Tia is a founding member and elder of the Tafuna Church of Christ in American Samoa. American Samoa is a small group of islands in the South Pacific, home to about 65,000 people. The church launched the annual South Pacific Lectures a few years ago.

Trey Morgan reports that Dump Day, a benefit to feed Hondurans who live at a garbage dump near Tegucigalpa, raised about $50,000, thanks in part to a matching gift from Bread for a Hungry World.

Trey Morgan, minister for the Childress, Texas, Church of Christ, will collect funds tomorrow through his website to raise money for the poorest of the poor in Honduras.

Missions Resource Network has named Dan Bouchelle as its new executive director. The 12-year-old ministry, based in Bedford, Texas, assists churches in mission efforts. In recent years the ministry has helped equip mission teams for Europe and other parts of the globe.