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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 [...]

By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International

Margarita Acosta opened the door to her new home and immediately burst into tears. She walked into her kitchen, slowly opening each cabinet door, her face filled with joy and disbelief.
She turned around with a huge grin. “This is mine.”
It was hard for her to contain the emotion in her voice. [...]

By Russ Dilday
Buckner News Service
DALLAS — Leaders of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas and Buckner International met Jan. 12 at the Buckner ministry offices to sign agreement that both groups say will help facilitate missions enrichment programs and services for the Hispanic Christian community. Jesse Rincones, president of the 1,100-congregation HBCT, co-signed the “Missions [...]

Summer may seem like a far-off dream right now for many young people who have been so unceremoniously yanked from the leisurely days of Christmas break back into the frenzied start of a new semester. But now is the time to start planning the best summer of your life.
Project Go is a summer missions program [...]

By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
BEAUMONT – Dave “Daddy Dave” Bleakley first met Amelia by chance at a Buckner Children’s Village reunion in Beaumont. Two-week-old Amelia was the youngest alumna and Daddy Dave was the oldest. Buckner staff thought it would make a cool photo, so they placed the tiny girl in his arms.
“What’s her name?” he [...]

By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner InternationalNovember is National Adoption Month, and we feel that everyone can celebrate – no matter whether your family is called to adopt or not. If you know an adoptive family, or a soon-to-be adoptive family, there are plenty of ways you can celebrate with them and help them as they transition.

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Players from the Texas Rangers partnered with Buckner International in November 2011 to deliver new shoes to children in the Dominican Republic through Shoes for Orphan Souls.
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By Mercy Salinas
Activities Coordinator
Buckner Rio Grande Children’s Home

October 15 saw children’s dreams begin to blossom at the Rio Grande Children’s Home as ground was broken on the Children’s Prayer Garden. It was a beautiful morning as the residents, staff and volunteers gathered at the site for a day of work and celebration.
Jerry Maples beamed as [...]

By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
The first time Sarah and Kevin Dildine met their 4-year-old son Jasper in a Russian orphanage, he sat and played with a toy truck, not making any noises or sound effects like most kids. He rarely spoke.
Now, according to his mother, Jasper dances and bounces everywhere he goes.
“When I watch him, I [...]

Reprinted from the Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 4, 2011

It’s not that Tim and December Barcroft wouldn’t love to be in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. They would be among 150 others nationally to be honored at a gala as part of the Angels in Adoption awards through the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
It’s just they can’t.
Tim has a [...]