Archive for the 'Missions' Category

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Buckner Missions is currently seeking volunteers to travel to Honduras March 11-15 on the annual mother-daughter mission trip.
Mother-daughter mission trips offer a chance to bond over shared experiences in an environment like no other.
Barb McDonald and her daughter, Annie, went on the trip to Guatemala last year, when a painful diagnosis prompted Barb to start [...]

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 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,” [...]

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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SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic – Children living at the Nuestros Pequeno Hermanos Orphanage received new shoes and baseball tips from the Texas Rangers and Buckner International as part of the two organizations’ ongoing partnership to impact children. 
 
Rangers Hall of Famer Jim Sundberg, Chief Operating Officer Rick George, and All-Star pitcher Alexi Ogando helped [...]

Buckner Missions has three medical mission trips scheduled for 2012, and we need doctors, dentists, nurses and nurse practitioners with a heart for missions to volunteer and make an impact on the lives of the people we serve.
2012 trips include:
Busia, Kenya
July 5-15, 2012
Optional 2-day safari
Mission coordinator: Ashley Marble.
Lima, Peru
Oct. 20-28, 2012
Optional Machu Picchu Excursion
Mission coordinator: [...]