Archive for August, 2011

By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International
Half of the population of Sierra Leone lives on less than $1 a day. In this country, people do what they can to scrape by.
Traders and vendors line the country’s roads, selling everything from produce to phone cards, drinking water and batteries. Women work as farmers, hairdressers, soap makers and traders, [...]

Hope for Orphans Institute is hosting a conference Sept. 16 and 17 at the Hope Center in Plano, Texas, on special needs and at-risk adoptions, adoption disruption and pre/post adoption support for families and children.
This conference is designed to equip and help orphan ministry leaders, families, pastors, counselors, social workers and advocates to better serve the increasing [...]

By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International
BEAUMONT— When staff at Buckner Children’s Village decided an update to their emergency shelter’s furniture was long-overdue, members of the Beaumont community wasted no time in helping Buckner achieve its goal.
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By Diamond Richardson
Buckner International

BEAUMONT, Texas – Beaumont Foundation gave $132,000 to provide clothes for Buckner foster children in 2011. This donation brings the foundation’s total gifts to Buckner to $585,000 over the past six years.
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Monday, Sept. 19, is your LAST CHANCE to buy tickets in the Buckner block for the Sept. 24 Texas Rangers game!
DALLAS – Buckner International will be featured LIVE in the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation / FOX Sports Southwest / TXA 21 “Community Corner” at the Sept. 24 Texas Rangers game vs. the Seattle Mariners.
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By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International

MEXICO — The Pan de Vida foster group home in Mexico City recently harvested more than 1,000 pounds of tomatoes, but they’re not exactly digging in or getting their hands dirty.
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By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International
In Amherst, Texas, nearly 50 miles northwest of Lubbock, the summer is scorching hot. There hasn’t been any rain for weeks, and the dry, sunbaked landscape shows it. But way out in this dusty desert is a little oasis in the home of the Baker family.
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By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
Hishia and Rickey Conner have parented more than 70 children in the past five years at Buckner Children’s Home in Lubbock, Texas.
“Some reunite with their families, some age out. But most of them keep in touch and let us know how they are doing. We try to provide for them when we [...]

Child welfare leaders and advocates will unite 2 p.m. Aug. 26 on Capitol Hill to speak for children in need of families throughout the world at the Step Forward for Orphans March. Supporters are invited to join in the march to promote permanency for children.
Craig Juntunen, founder of Both Ends Burning, initiated the event with [...]

By Diamond Richardson
Buckner International

DALLAS – Keidra Perry knows that nothing in life is promised.
Years before Perry arrived at Buckner Family Pathways, she had the life she always wanted. She had a good job. She and her family lived in a nice house with two new cars parked in the driveway.
“I wasn’t humble enough,” Perry said. [...]