Archive for September, 2009

Robin Moore greets us at the front door with three young boys standing nearby. “Anna!” she calls out, grabbing her friend and hugging her around the neck. “It’s been so long since I’ve seen you.”
The boys run off to play as she leads Anna Rodriguez, director of Buckner Family Place in Midland, and the rest [...]

Lucy Gutierrez was working at a prison and saw no future in it. She could hardly pay the groceries and wanted out.
Gutierrez decided that she needed to get her LVN so that she could work with the elderly and she began taking the more-than-an-hour long trek to South Plains College in Levelland, Texas from her [...]

For a while, Sabrina Sanchez lived in her car with her two little girls and another on the way.
“We weren’t eating because I was doing meth,” Sanchez said. “The only time the girls ate was when they visited my boyfriend’s parent’s house.”
Sanchez, now 28, said she knew she might lose her daughters if she didn’t repair her [...]

Nichole Watkins and her children lived in a house with drug addicts before they came to My Father’s House.
“I heard about My Father’s House when I was pregnant with my second daughter,” she said. “The classes that I took in the Christian Women’s Job Corps showed me that I needed to do something different with [...]

When Elaine Howard arrived at My Father’s House, she was broken and looking for repair.
“I had an addiction to methamphetamines and had been incarcerated for seven months,” she said. “I went to a halfway house for 60 days and I needed a place to live.”
She heard about My Father’s House Lubbock and didn’t think she [...]

by Analiz Schremmer
Before coming to My Father’s House, Becky Crowley felt like suicide was the only way out.
“After I got a divorce in January, I was completely broken and lost,” Crowley said. “This was the exact place I needed. I had fallen into depression and wasn’t taking adequate care of my three boys, so CPS [...]

By Jon Mark Beilue
Amarillo Globe News

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It’s hard to say for sure when it was that Charbra Richardson and her two sons, James and Demontrey, plummeted to rock bottom. What exactly did despair look like?

Was it when the Potter County sheriff’s department came that February day to make sure they had been [...]

By Janet Gerow
At first I thought the hardest thing was actually going to Vietnam. The trip was originally planned to go to China, and when we were re-routed for Vietnam due to a swine-flu fear in the other country, I felt rushed and not sure if I was spiritually ready to give my all to [...]

By Analiz G. Schremmer
(HA NOI, Vietnam) — A pile of more than 240 shoes, booties and slippers were distributed to orphans living on the outskirts of the capital of Vietnam.
Among them was the two millionth donation to Shoes for Orphan Souls—a pair of Crocs that went to Ðàm Trung Hiêu, one of the boys at [...]

By George Henson, Staff Writer
Baptist Standard
Published: August 27, 2009
(WACO, Texas) — One family’s desire to honor its heritage has led to a partnership between Buckner International and Baylor University that promises hope for the future of many Kenyan orphans and their families.
The Kay School and the Reynolds Ministry Center have been built on opposite sides [...]