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Adoption Heritage Day Connects Cultures, Families
By Jenny PopeBuckner International(DALLAS, Texas) – Families traveled around the world and back Feb. 28 at the annual Adoption Heritage Day at Buckner Children’s Home in East...
Getting the Family Involved in Missions: Tips for Serving Together
By Analiz González SchremmerBuckner InternationalGetting a young family involved in missions might seem impossible, but there are several possibilities available to help children and parents serve the...
To Serve the Poor
By Ashley GreenBuckner Shoes for Orphan Souls Trip Participant(El Paso, TEXAS) — We were in border towns, known locally as colonias, meaning poor neighborhoods. Poor. A colonia...
Buckner to Start Shoe Drives in Countries Worldwide
By Analiz González SchremmerBuckner InternationalBuckner Shoes for Orphan Souls went from being a Dallas-based shoe drive in 1999, to expanding throughout the country.Now, 10 years later, Buckner...
Welcome to the new Buckner Web site!
Buckner International is happy to launch our new Web site, designed to be easy to navigate and fun to read. “Buckner has a long and storied tradition...
Buckner, Bright Hope and Ethiopian President Celebrate School Inauguration
By Analiz G. Schremmer(BANTU, Ethiopia) — Buckner International and Bright Hope celebrated the inauguration of a new school in Bantu, Ethiopia in the company of Girma Wolde...
How Last Year Led me to Today
By Suzy HemmingFor the past few years I’ve been putting together Christmas gift boxes for orphans in Peru. It’s a shoebox that I would fill with pens,...
Valero donates $25,000 to Buckner children
By Analiz González Schremmer(BEAUMONT, Texas) — Valero Energy Corporation donated $25,000 to Buckner Children and Family Services in Southeast Texas.The funds were collected at the 2008 Valero...
Out of the Ashes
By Analiz González Schremmer(SAN CARLOS, Texas) — Everything was gone. When the Longoria family came home from the flea market on January 18, all that was left...
Emmanuel’s Story
By Jenny Popewith reporting by Megan Petock, Mercy ShipsPhotography by Debra Bell, Mercy Ships (LIBERIA) – Emmanuel, 10, was used to being treated as an outcast. Born...