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For the first time, Christmas doesn’t sink Valley family
Christmas should be a time of celebration, a period of joy, hope, love and peace. Instead, it meant debt for the Morales family. The family of six...
Friday photo: Dallas Mavericks players distribute Thanksgiving meals to Dallas families
Last week, Dallas Mavericks players Devin Harris and Jeff Withey helped distribute Thanksgiving meals to 250 Dallas families participating in Buckner programs. With smiles, Devin and Jeff loaded up cars with...
Faith Focus: Count your blessings by counting the people you love
As I contemplated Thanksgiving leading up to this devotion, I thought of the many ways God has blessed my family this year. We’re healthy. We’re safe. We’re...
We do missions differently. So should you.
Chances are, if you’ve scrolled through your social media feed lately, you’ve run across a video by Christian comedian John Crist. His lighthearted brand of comedy has...
Faith Focus: We never know where meeting a need might lead
In the mid-1990s, roughly 800 of the 4,000 students at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas, were single parents. Many of them had come back to school to...
Faith Focus: What to do when you’re not good enough
Robbie is a hero of mine. He has been for some time. I admire the energy he brings to every room he walks into, his ability to...
Faith Focus: Do what you need to do
Dequante “DQ” Thomas couldn’t have imagined as a single, 27-year-old man, he’d know all the words to “Let It Go” from Disney’s Frozen. But when his 4-year-old niece,...
Faith Focus: Expect the Unexpected
Brent and Savannah never thought they’d care for a child with special needs. But here was Zach, a “completely non-verbal” 2-year-old in their home. He had not...
Together, we change lives
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, one principle has shown through again and again. At Buckner International, we truly are a family. We each bring our strengths...
Faith Focus: Meet Aleida. Pray for her and her family.
In one day last week, the Buckner Family Hope Center at Houston/Aldine distributed food, water, cleaning supplies, hygiene items and clothes to hundreds of Hurricane Harvey victims....