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With help from Buckner Family Place, young mom ready for future
An interview with CBS 7’s Tatum HubbardEditor’s note: Odessa native Tatum Hubbard anchors the 6 and 10 o’clock news for CBS 7, serving Midland-Odessa and the Permian...
Farmers Cooperative Compress Partners with CoBank to Provide Support for Local Buckner Foster Children
LUBBOCK – Farmers Cooperative Compress’ gift of $1,500 to Buckner Children and Family Services in Lubbock was matched by CoBank to provide support for Buckner International’s local...
Jobs for Life changes lives
[caption id="attachment_5803" align="alignright" width="500" caption="Sylvester Willis graduated from the Jobs for Life class at Buckner's Longview Community Transformation Center in May 2012, where he learned faith-based principles...
Buckner builds better businesses, families
By Chelsea QuackenbushOsvaldo and Maria Salazar live with their two young sons on the edge of a colonia in what used to be a trailer barely held...
My Father’s House mom: ‘I hope to do something big’
By Lauren Hollon Sturdy Anita Morris packed up her bags and boarded a plane to travel more than 5,000 miles to start a new life. She hadn’t...
Buckner Mexico Hatches Egg-Cellent Business Model
Buckner Mexico Community Transformation Centers provide feeding programs in several locations around the country, but Country Director Juan Carlos Millan noted the need to add food production...
The importance of feeling important
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalSitting with Gracie Vazquez as she shares her life in the activity room of the Penitas Community Transformation Center, the conversation suddenly grows quiet....
Families celebrate Russian heritage, joys of adoption
Natalie Bull, 9, of Waco, works on a craft project at a heritage gathering for Eastern European adoptive families.By Susan SerranoDillon InternationalDALLAS –...
Shelving expectations for blessings beyond imagination
By Lauren Hollon SturdyWhen Jason and Nikki Waligura first took the plunge into adoption, they had no idea what lay at the end of their long journey.After...
Buckner volunteer and former Children’s Home resident recognized as finalist in The Dallas Foundation’s “Good Works Under 40”
This biker isn’t bad to the bone – far from it. For the last two years, John Porter has poured his time and energy into making the...