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Kenya Children Learn Dental Hygiene from Mission Team
By Analiz G. Schremmer(NAIROBI, Kenya)—A group of Buckner orphans in Kenya learned about oral health during a seminar led by a group of short-term mission volunteers in...
From Russia to Texas
By Analiz G. Schremmer WACO, Texas — Sugar and spice and Russian adoption—twice. Sarah and Natalie, ages 6 and 7, became part of the Bull family in...
Music in the Buckner Villas
By Analiz G. SchremmerAUSTIN—Dr. Lillian Brown can’t sing with her voice, so she does it with her piano.Brown, 89, said that when she moved to Buckner Villas...
Young Life Comes to Camp Buckner in 2010
BURNET, Texas – Young Life, a non-denominational Christian organization that seeks to share Jesus Christ with adolescents through relational ministry, will host middle school and high school...
Wake-up Call
On Saturday I saw poverty. They didn't warn us. Saturday morning after a much needed deep sleep after a busy day of travel, we woke up and...
Resolve to Do Something in 2010
A new decade is upon us, and there are more orphans and vulnerable children in need than ever before. Resolve to do something in 2010 to make...
Guatemalan Orphan Finds Home
By Analiz G. Schremmer(DALLAS, Texas)—More than two years after the adoption process started, Juan Pablo finally came home with his family.On December 9, the 7-year-old bounded into...
Lost and Found
By Cheryl WilsonAs told to Jenny PopeWhen I was 17, I got pregnant and dropped out of high school. And to make things worse, I married him....
Buckner Retirement Services, Baptist Memorials Ministries Affiliate
SAN ANGELO, Texas – Leaders of Dallas-based Buckner Retirement Services, Inc. and Baptist Memorials Ministries in San Angelo signed an affiliation agreement today at the Baptist Memorials...
Mavs Forward Gives Dallas Families a Thanksgiving to Remember
By Analiz G. SchremmerDALLAS—Dallas Mavericks forward James Singleton teamed up with Kroger on Nov. 22 to provide Thanksgiving dinner for Buckner foster families and others in need...