Current Mission Efforts at the Starkville Church of Christ 

Pine Vale Children's Home

Mississippi State University  
MSU gives us a great opportunity to reach out to 16,000 students. We have a student center, full-time campus minister and also two college-age interns. We minister to over 100 college-age and our residential members number about 300. In our case the mission field has come to our front door and we are enthuiastic about all the opportunities for sharing Jesus.

Por Los Ninos Children's Home/ Family Life Ministries    

       Family Life Missions has been a longstanding work based in Catacamas Honduras.  We at FLM operate the Por Los Ninos Children’s Homes in Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the world today. Our mission is to teach the children the love of God; To provide a Christian home environment where children will become spiritually, psychologically, and physically healthy; and to provide educational and vocational opportunities to the children so they will become productive Christian Honduran citizens.

African Christian Hospitals
Medical Missions are a important part of reching those who are lost. Mission points in Nigerian and Ghana have been established and open many doors of opportunities. Our own Gene and Nell Egli have been over to Africa numerous times (14 at last count) to assist in this work.

Matthew 25:35-36, 40  'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;  naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.'  '…Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'

Poland 
We help support Mike Dawidow and the work in Sopot, Poland. Some of our resident members and college-age have gone over on short-term mission efforts in support of this fine work.

Youth Missions in Honduras T.O.R.C.H. 

T.O.R.C.H. stands for: “Training of Redeemed Christians Heaven Bound.” Torch was originally started as a teen mission. It is designed and crafted to interest teens and their chaperones in short term mission efforts in Honduras. Teams build houses for the poor, provide food for the hungry, supply clothing and medical supplies, and most importantly, share the good news of Jesus with the lost.

     For the last several summers, our youth have particitpated in this fruitfull mission effort. Last summer this mission trip built 18 houses for local Hondurans in need, distributed 500 bags of food, gave out 1000 pairs of clothes, visited a local hospital, held a Vacation Bible School for the children and baptized thirty-two people into Christ.

World Christian Broadcasting  

World Christian Broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the Good News of Jesus Christ and want to know more.

World Christian Broadcasting’s international shortwave broadcasting communicates the Good News to millions every day.  KNLS, located at the top of the world in Anchor Point, Alaska, has been on the air since 1983.  A new station is presently under construction in the region of the Indian Ocean.

Through these shortwave transmissions, they blanket highly populated regions such as China, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and also hundreds of smaller areas.  By speaking in people’s own language, forming friendships, and creating bonds of trust, World Christian Broadcasting sparks hope, interest, and curiosity among listeners.  Programming encourages a search for meaning in life, spiritual reflection, and personal study of the message of Jesus.  By the grace of God and the technology He provides, many will hear the Good News, perhaps for the first time, and respond to the life-changing invitation of God.  We feel privileged to be part of this unique and most important way to spread the good news of Jesus.  

Sunnybrook Children's Home  
On December 10th, 1963, Sunnybrook Children's Home, Inc. was chartered by the state of Mississippi as a nonprofit, Christian child-care organization. On June 1st, 1964, Sunnybrook Children's Home began charitable care for children in temporary rented quarters located on North Street in Jackson, Mississippi. Because the demand for caring for homeless, abused and neglected children increased, Sunnybrook Children's Home located to its present location in Ridgeland, Mississippi on June 1st, 1967. Sunnybrook Children's Home is licensed by the state of Mississippi for residential care, foster care and adoption services.

Sunnybrook Children's Home provides its male & female residents (ages 6 to 18 years old) with a safe, structured, therapeutic group home setting. Christian houseparents provide for the children's basic spiritual, physical & emotional needs, as well as providing 24-hours a day, 7 days a week supervision of the children.

In an effort to meet the deeper spiritual needs of each child, children at the Sunnybrook Children's Home regularly participate in an array of spiritualy-related activities. Children attend worship services, summer Christian youth camps, youth rallies & devotionals.

Church of Christ Disaster Relief  
The Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort immediately responds to any major disaster in the continental United States by sending truckloads of emergency food, water, cleaning, and other supplies to disaster victims.

Our congregation especially assisted in hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Several teams traveled to work and provide relief to families who had lost everything.

Pine Vale Children's Home  
 Pine Vale Children’s Home is located in Corinth Mississippi. Pine Vale is a long term group home which provides care for disadvantaged children between the ages of 4 and 20.