Archive for February, 2012

By Chelsea Quackenbush

DALLAS – Buckner-Hillburn Hills and AZAR Foundation, Inc. are reaching out to students in the Piedmont Home Association community to serve afterschool snacks twice a week to foster relationships and lay the groundwork for community transformation.
Students from John B. Hood Middle School and San Jacinto Elementary School swing by the community center to [...]

By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Photography by Chelsea Quackenbush
Locke and Kara Curfman might be the strongest foster care advocates you’ll ever meet. Even with three birth kids and two toddlers they adopted through foster care, they’re still taking foster placements. They’re serious about children.
In fact, they’re such big advocates that they were recognized by the Congressional Coalition [...]

PEÑITAS – Sandy Wisdom-Martin knew building a home for a family living in desperate poverty in the Lower Rio Grande Valley would transform their lives. She had no idea it would save a life, too.
When Wisdom-Martin, executive director of Texas Woman’s Missionary Union, affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, visited the Perez family [...]

Victor Hugo Thompson Jr. knew loss throughout his life –his first wife, Pearl, died during the polio epidemic, and his first child, Vic III, was killed in Vietnam at just 24 years old. But he never let that mar his outlook on life.�
Ever the optimist, Mr. Thompson told his daughter, Kathy Brumbaugh. ‘Every day’s a [...]

By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
It started as a simple tooth brushing demonstration for a group of children in Guatemala on a Buckner mission trip in 2010.
With no sinks or running water, Eric Cope held the trash bag for kids to spit in. It became very apparent how serious their dental issues were. They didn’t have toothbrushes; [...]

By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
Photography by Lauren Hollon Sturdy

In an odd way, Wendi Hay had a feeling she would be homeless one day.
She didn’t know why or what would lead her there. She just had a feeling.
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DALLAS–Buckner International and Refuge of Light signed a three-year agreement Feb. 8 to work jointly serving female minors identified as victims of sex trafficking.
Refuge of Light, based in Tyler, Texas, hopes to start construction for the safe-home early in 2013 to serve girls 17 years and under. Buckner will oversee the operations and provide staff [...]

Project Go needs your help!
Project Go is a summer missions program for college students and recent graduates who want to serve orphans and vulnerable children. They spend half or the whole of their summer serving children in seven countries or on the Texas-Mexico border.
These students will work with children in orphanages and community centers, put on Vacation [...]