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Presidential Perspective: Back to School
By Albert L. ReyesPresident and CEO, Buckner InternationalIt’s back-to-school time again. You can almost hear the groans of all the kids as they see the summer evaporate...
Birthday Wish Brings Blessings to Children Worldwide
It all started with an advertisement on the Disney channel one morning in June. Thomas Martinez ran into his mother’s room and asked her to stop blow-drying...
The Impact of New Shoes
The Impact of New Shoes. Click to enlarge!New shoes affect children from head to toe! Click the graphic to learn more about all...
Drive for Success: Missouri Rotarians keep trucking for shoes
Editor’s note: This year marked the 11th consecutive year Rotary International District 6040 in Missouri collected shoes for Shoes for Orphan Souls®. For the past three years,...
Stories from the mission field:College student finds her future in Kenya
By Jana BergesonKenya, Africa: aka number one on my bucket list. A trip to Kenya has been in the top three of every Santa letter since I...
Missions: Buckner’s caring hand to ‘the least and lost’
By Chelsea QuackenbushYou plan for months. You hold fundraisers and sell all your stuff. You go to meetings to talk about cultural awareness, new customs and how...
Presidential perspective: Close to Home
Maria* was born the year before Buckner began working in Guatemala. Today, she is an 11-year-old girl who has hope; not just a futuristic hope, as in,...
Aldine YOUTH Community Center Joins Buckner International
[caption id="attachment_5498" align="alignright" width="500" caption="U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), presented the center with a Congressional Certificate of Recognition praising the center's community efforts and acknowleding the...
Hispanic Baptist volunteers distribute shoes, school supplies to Valley children
By Jenny PopeBuckner InternationalMISSION, Texas – Volunteers from the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas placed new shoes on the feet of more than 700 children in the...
Hope shines at 2012 Convencion conference
By John HallBaptist StandardSAN ANTONIO – “Rays of light” are flowing through the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas to impact people for Christ across the state and...