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Buckner Provides 4,500 Pairs of Shoes to Dallas Homeless and Vulnerable Families
By Lauren Hollon SturdyBuckner InternationalDALLAS – Last Saturday outside the Dallas Convention Center, thousands of people huddled together, wrapped in blankets, waiting for 8:30 a.m. when the...
Nursing Students Bring a Dose of Holiday Fun to Buckner Afterschool Programs
By Lauren Hollon SturdyBuckner InternationalNursing students from Texas Women’s University and members of the Dallas Cake Club spread Christmas cheer yesterday at three Buckner afterschool programs in...
Photo Slideshow: Christmas in Peru Team Delivers Gifts, Smiles
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...
Sierra Leone CTC teaches business skills through GCPN training program
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalSIERRA LEONE – Matilda Conteh, 25, approached Buckner in 2010 desperate for change after years of having to beg for survival and care for...
Roatán CTC protects, diagnoses, feeds and educates
by Lauren Hollon SturdyBuckner InternationalThe island of Roatán, 40 miles northeast of the Honduran mainland, is a tropical paradise. White sand beaches and warm turquoise water greet...
Buckner seeks to turn families around ‘180 degrees’
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalZAACHILA, Mexico – Fifty Mexican families are working with Buckner staff turn their lives around by participating in the "180 Degree Project" through the...
Buckner and Esperanza partner to provide self-sufficiency in Eduardo Brito
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalThe Buckner Dominican Republic Community Transformation Center has teamed up with Esperanza Bank in Eduardo Brito to offer families microloans to propel them out...
Buckner domestic CTC walks with families for change
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalPENITAS, Texas – Alberto Diaz’s five-year-old daughter used to ask him why it would continue to rain inside their trailer though it stopped raining...
Models of Transformation: Community Transformation Centers
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalAnd let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works, not abandoning our own meetings, as some...
Mana CTC extends its reach to nearby communities
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalNEZA, Mexico – The Maná CTC in Neza has opened a satellite CTC in the Las Villas community, a squatter community of extreme poverty...