Archive for November, 2009

By Analiz G. Schremmer
DALLAS—Dallas Mavericks forward James Singleton teamed up with Kroger on Nov. 22 to provide Thanksgiving dinner for Buckner foster families and others in need in the Dallas area.
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By Rachael Brown
A few blocks away from the Buckner Office in Guatemala City is a house with a plastic grass yard, a living room with tile floors and bean bag chairs, and four bedrooms filled with thirteen tiny beds. If you’ve been to Guatemala on a Buckner trip, you probably know the place. It’s the [...]

CARTHAGE, Texas – Jim and Linda Kimberly were sitting on the porch on Easter Sunday, watching their youngest son Jared play with his cousins, when they felt the call.
“Jim said, ‘You know, I’d like to take up the idea of fostering,’” Linda recalled. “So we did it. We just really felt called to it.”
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November is National Adoption Month and it is Buckner’s goal to help each and every child in the Texas find a loving family. That’s why Buckner is actively recruiting individuals and families to adopt children in need of a home.
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By Jenny Pope
Sometimes the needs are immediate. Children are removed from their home or found wandering the streets – they need a safe place to live; a warm meal; someone who cares.
But sometimes, the needs are unseen – too far in the future to know what’s ahead. But like the first winds of a storm, [...]

By Analiz G. Schremmer
(DALLAS)—Buckner Hearts in Action, a group of military supporters from Buckner Retirement Village, spent their morning giving out candy, camouflage skull caps and hugs to a group of military men and women flying out of DFW International Airport on Nov. 1.
“They do this on the first Monday of every month,” said Alicia [...]