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DBU Students Collect ‘Change for Change’

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
DALLAS – What started as a goal to raise $25 a month in a boys’ dormitory at Dallas Baptist University led to a campus-wide orphan care fundraiser calling for change through the collection of spare change.
Resident Director Chris Holloway, 23, has been on several mission trips with Buckner International, a global nonprofit [...]

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A Mother and Daughter’s Perspective on Serving Together

We’re all a piece of the quilt
A year ago last spring, my daughter Jenny asked me to go with her to Guatemala on the mother-daughter mission trip. She wanted me to see first-hand the reason she is so passionate about her work with Buckner. Of course, I had read [...]

Buckner Celebrates Success Stories at Annual Founder’s Day

(DALLAS)—Buckner International, a global ministry serving orphans and vulnerable children, celebrated some of its most notable success stories Friday, April 16 at the Dallas Market Center as part of its annual Founder’s Day celebration.
This year, the organization celebrated 131 years of serving children and families.
The honorees included Aaron Hardin, who grew up attending a Buckner after-school [...]

Russian Adoptions Continuing

MOSCOW  [April 15] — Officials with Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services say they have not received any official notification about the suspension of adoptions from the Russian Ministry of Education, the arm of the government that oversees international adoptions.
According to Buckner’s Russia staff this morning, international adoptions are continuing without interruption. Andrei Pukhlov, director of [...]