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To Your Health

By Albert ReyesPresident, Buckner InternationalIf you’ve ever been sick – and who hasn’t? – you can appreciate being healthy. That’s something Americans take very seriously. How seriously?According...
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Westminster Place is the answer for residents

By Chelsea QuackenbushJanelle Hudgins knew something was wrong with her 88-year-old mother Leoda Newsome last summer when she lost her memory overnight last August.Newsome was dehydrated and...
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Medical services save a child’s life in rural Kenya

By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalStanley lost both of his parents to HIV by time he was 6. The young Kenyan boy then lived with his aunt, who could...
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Teen serves with father on medical mission trip to Ethiopia

By Chelsea QuackenbushThirteen-year-old Jackson Glenn’s first time out of the country was not a luxurious vacation to the Caribbean with his family or a class trip to...
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Buckner, MannaRelief make strides against malnutrition in the Valley

By Lauren Hollon SturdyWhen an 8-year-old child weighs what a healthy 6-year-old should, there’s a problem.That was the case for a boy living in the Rio Grande...
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Domestic Adoption Trends Changing the Adoption Landscape

By Jenny PopeBuckner InternationalTREND: Fewer domestic infant adoptions nationwide. Most Americans favor adoption, according to recent National Survey on Family Growth and the National Foster Care Adoption...
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Q & A with Jerry and Deniese Dillon, Founders of Dillon International

Adoption agency celebrates 40 years of operationQ: Why did you start this ministry in the first place? DENIESE: Well, Jerry is a visionary, and I'm the stick...
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Big Steps: Shoes for Orphan Souls™ Walks Tall

By Scott CollinsIt’s a scene I’ve watched for 13 years, going back even before Buckner took over what is today Shoes for Orphan Souls™.The mission team files...
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Longview: The Real East Texas

By Chelsea QuackenbushPhoto by Lauren Hollon SturdyHead east out of Dallas on Interstate 20 and the whizzing cars and tall buildings shrink in your rearview mirror as...
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Longview couple funds school in Ethiopia

By Chelsea QuackenbushTom and Margaret Ann “Mac” Stone remember sitting in a Buckner meeting several years ago, their hearts breaking for children in Ethiopia but not knowing...
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