Archive for August, 2009

By Analiz G. Schremmer
(LONGVIEW, Texas) — The line outside First Baptist Longview snaked through the parking lot and out into the streets for hours on Aug. 14. Meanwhile, volunteers inside the building were cutting hair, distributing backpacks and giving shots to area children.
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(MIDLAND, Texas) — About 13,000 people attended Rock the Desert, a Christian concert that brought in more than 8,500 Shoes for Orphan Souls. The concert was held August 7 and 8 and featured some of today’s most popular Christian artists including Disciple, Kutless, Switchfoot, LeCrae and Chris Tomlin.
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(DALLAS, Texas) – Sara Frances Gregory Buckner, the last of the Buckner generation who helped establish and operate the ministries of founder R.C. Buckner, passed away Aug. 10 in Tallahassee, Florida.
Sara served alongside her husband, Robert Cooke Buckner, grandson of R. C. Buckner, at the Buckner Orphans Home from 1936 – 1954. She earned her [...]

(Roatan, HONDURAS) – Leaders at two Dallas-based international children’s organizations have initiated an alliance to provide services to protect at-risk children on the island of Roatan, just off the Honduran coast. Program leaders at Buckner International and Kids Matter International announced Aug. 5 the two groups will jointly operate a short-term transitional home for girls, [...]

By Ryan Brown
Buckner International

(DALLAS, Texas) – For Val Delacruz and the other volunteers at the Goslin Care Center at Cliff Temple Baptist Church, it looked like another normal Thursday trip to the North Texas Food Bank. But one thing this ministry has taught him, he said, is to never be weary of a miracle.
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By Ryan Brown
Buckner International
(FRISCO, Texas) – Brittany Woodson, 13, looks forward to her summer at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth every year. But when she thinks of the many activities she does, there is one camp that always comes to mind – Legacy Sports Camp.
Brittany and others from Broadway and the Wynnewood Community Service [...]

By Analiz G. Schremmer
Before coming to stay with host families in Dallas, some of the Russian orphans in the Angels from Abroad program had no idea what it was like to be part of a family. So saying goodbye was a difficult thing.
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