A Buckner Missions Conference

April 25, 2009
Park Cities Baptist Church
Dallas, Texas (Click here for Directions)

Go Somewhere. Be a Voice. Do Something.

Go. Be. Do. A Buckner Missions Conference.
It’s a place to learn. It’s a time to talk. It’s a gathering of hearts. It’s a meeting to plan. It’s a discovery of direction. It can be the start of something wonderful.

There are 145 million orphans around the globe. Children without a voice, children who need love. There are children in crisis, perhaps next door to you, who need safety, who need care. There are families that need healing, families that need strength.

Buckner International provides an array of opportunities designed to respond to the needs of children and families and collaborates with others to help children. There are opportunities to go somewhere to help these children, to be an advocate for them and to do something to feed, care or clothe them. This is your chance to find out how to act now.

Workshops: Impact through Family, Community, Empowerment and Aid

Buckner works in four distinct areas designed to impact the lives of children and families, and we’ve designed our conference sessions around these four impact areas.

Family Programs have a permanent impact on the lives of at-risk children by placing children in family environments. Family capabilities include adoption, foster care, residential care and transitional services.
Community programs provide a preventative impact on the lives of children by encouraging families to stay together. Community capabilities include community enrichment programs such as mentoring and after-school programs.

Empowerment programs have a significant impact on the lives of at-risk children and their families by promoting self-sufficiency. Empowerment capabilities include educational services and economic development initiatives.

Aid, support and health programs are typically a one-time or a short-interval of services intended to provide at-risk children with some humanitarian aid need or some shorter-term interaction. Aid, support and health capabilities include Shoes for Orphan Souls, humanitarian aid, mission trips and medical and dental services.

Registering is easy! You can register three ways :

Fee: No cost for the conference program -- $20 Lunch fee; $5 for Students
Schedule

Saturday, April 25

8:30 - 9:30a.m.

 Registration opens, Exhibits open
9:30a.m. Plenary Session 1
Arnie Adkison - Chief Relationships Officer Buckner
9:55a.m. Worship with Geoff Moore
Christian Artist
10:10a.m.  Keynote Speaker
Dr. Michael Stroope - Associate Professor of Christian Missions, Truett Seminary
10:45a.m. Break, Resource Room Open
11:00a.m. Workshop Session 1
Your Adoption Journey, Mentoring Children, Be a Family: Foster Parenting with Buckner, Go: Doing Missions through Buckner, What’s Happening: Mexico and the Border
12:15p.m. Lunch, Film Festival
1:00p.m. Workshop Session 2
Start an Adoption Ministry in Your Church, Start a Community Ministry Program at Your Church, Micro-Enterprise: Business as Ministry, Collect Shoes to Change Children’s Lives, Medical Mission Trips, What’s Happening: Central, South America
2:15p.m.  Break, Resource Room Open
2:30p.m. Plenary Session 2
2:35p.m.  Keynote Speaker
Albert L. Reyes - President, Buckner Children and Family Services

Leadership

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Michael W. Stroope joined the George W. Truett Theological Seminary faculty in 2001 after 20 years of missionary experience in Sri Lanka, England, Germany and Hong Kong as a church planter, educator, and administrator. Dr. Stroope consults and helps churches to train and send members for cross-cultural service and witness. He and his wife, Kay, live in Dublin, Texas and are members of Cottonwood Baptist Church.



Speaker
Albert L. Reyes is President of Buckner Children and Family Services, the missions and ministry arm of Buckner International. BCFS includes global volunteer missions, adoption, foster care, humanitarian aid, vocational training and business development among its many ministries.






Worship Leader
Throughout his 23-year career, Geoff Moore has clearly heard the voice of God through his ministry to the least of these. Geoff has been an eager and fervent voice for Buckner International and Compassion International as an advocate for orphans and at-risk children around the world.


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