My third week in Peru, my team and I served the community of Pamplona at a Buckner Community Transformation Center. I had only been in Peru for two weeks and my most recent Spanish class was in high school. Language was a barrier for me. However, one little girl reminded me that sharing God’s love [...]
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 [...]
A 24-person mission team returned from Peru on Dec. 11th, where they recently spent 10 days delivering gifts to children, doing Vacation Bible Schools and sharing the love of Jesus. Christmas in Peru is an annual Buckner mission trip. You can read first-person stories from this year’s trip at the It’s Your Mission blog.
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By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
SIERRA LEONE – Matilda Conteh, 25, approached Buckner in 2010 desperate for change after years of having to beg for survival and care for her three children.
One of nine children, she was adopted at a young age by her grandmother since her mother could not take care of her. By time she [...]
by Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International
The island of Roatán, 40 miles northeast of the Honduran mainland, is a tropical paradise. White sand beaches and warm turquoise water greet throngs of tourists in high season who come to spend their vacation in the luxurious beachside resorts.
But stray from tourist areas, and it’s clear that poverty is a [...]
By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
ZAACHILA, Mexico – Fifty Mexican families are working with Buckner staff turn their lives around by participating in the “180 Degree Project” through the Zaachila and Mefiboset Community Transformation Centers. Earlier this year, caseworkers did a census to identify needs in the community, and then identified 25 families from each location who [...]
By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
The Buckner Dominican Republic CTC has teamed up with Esperanza Bank in Eduardo Brito to offer families microloans to propel them out of extreme poverty and toward self-sufficiency.
Qualifying families live in extreme poverty with little hope of becoming part of the job market. An Esperanza facilitator and a Buckner social worker evaluate [...]
By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works, not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other and even more so because you see the day drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25
Transformation is not going to take [...]
By Chelsea Quackenbush
Buckner International
NEZA, Mexico – The Maná CTC in Neza has opened a satellite CTC in the Las Villas community, a squatter community of extreme poverty near railroad tracks. There currently is no budget for the program, so it relies on volunteers, local church support and small donations. There is a social worker who provides [...]
By Diamond Richardson
Buckner International
GUATEMALA CITY – Looking at spit from one of her students on the floor of a newly renovated classroom, Krista Edmonds realized her volunteer job would entail more than just teaching English.
“I have always felt called to work in Latin America but I never thought I would end up as a teacher,” [...]
