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 [...]
It was just before the service began one Sunday night when she approached me. A very kind woman with whom we went to church wanted to express her happiness at the news of our unexpected pregnancy. Supposedly biological children were not an option for us and God had already begun building our family through the [...]
Several years ago, I felt led to participate in a FamilyLife-sponsored mission trip to Guatemala where I visited orphanages and my heart was broken for the 100 million orphans in our world.
This led to the beginning of our family’s adoption journey—a journey that would stretch our faith and finances and take us to the very [...]
See how God used our Project Go! volunteers this summer as they served in Peru, Guatemala, Kenya, Honduras, Russia, Dominican Republic, Mexico and the U.S./Mexico border.
Peru: Love takes many forms
Before this trip, Victoria, Katie, and I knew the urgency of the great commission and took the command to love orphans seriously. It’s why we signed [...]
We want to thank everyone who participated in this year’s Missions Photo Contest on Facebook. We loved looking at your submissions and seeing your mission trips through your eyes!
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By Chris Cato
Buckner Missions Coordinator
On a recent mission trip to Peru, God used a few college students from Hardin Simmons University to expand His Kingdom.
As the Bible story was being taught one morning, Natalie, Kay and Lauren noticed a little 9-year-old girl who kept scratching her head due to the lice crawling in her hair.
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In the blue of the pool, between waves and the tiled bottom, I’ve lost her. My daughter’s missing in the chaos of churning chlorine. Arms, legs, heads all thrashing and bobbing, and her’s indistinguishable from the rest. Finally, I spot her, her hair thick points of streaming water as she climbs the ladder out of [...]
Approaching the anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, we continue to be grateful to be alive and count our blessings. Most days are challenges in Haiti, and we do not see them decreasing soon, however we serve a good God and He will continue to equip us with the strength for every day.
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Julisia came to our home on June 25, 2009. At that time, less than a month old, she had spent all of her time in the hospital. She was born to a drug-addicted mother and started life prematurely and underdeveloped. At 4 lbs. 4 oz. she was born six weeks early. She would spend her [...]
By Claire McGough
“How did you know that I liked cats?” That was one of the first questions Anastasia asked my husband, Chris, and I when we first met her last week. It was such a delight to realize that we already shared a connection, even though we had been living in vastly different worlds — [...]
