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Faith Focus: What’s your why?
London went to college for four years, but she didn’t graduate. She admits she didn’t buckle down and focus on her education like she should have. Looking...
Faith Focus: Keep plugging away
Bruce was up against the wall. At 22, he’d signed a major record deal and thought he was on the road to success. But after two disappointing...
Faith Focus: ‘We changed the trajectory of his life’
Andi Harrison is director of Buckner foster care and adoption in North Texas. She’s also a foster parent. When her first foster child was placed back with a member...
Friday photo: A special summer
For many of us, the summers of our childhoods include some of the most special moments of our lives. Thanks to the many volunteers that serve through...
Dallas family declares ‘This is our time’ to succeed
Tilia Sanchez volunteers at Burnet Elementary School in Dallas whenever she can. She wants to make the school the best it can be for every student, including...
Faith Focus: Sitting on the precipice of something new
In an office near the front of the Buckner Children and Family Services campus in Longview, Texas, Buckner Family Coach Courtney Barr visits with a mom. Her...
‘I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free’
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a largely empty bus in Montgomery, Ala. after a long day at work as a seamstress. She walked by several...
Pain to perseverance: Conroe mom forges forward to earn college degree
When Ashlee Robinson first met Anna Rodriquez and Carrie Johnson, she couldn’t even look them in the eye. Reeling from what felt like a series of failures...
Faith Focus: Beverlye Dodd’s story is the story of all of us
Beverlye Dodd grew up being told she was not smart enough, not good enough and not worth enough—and never would be. Today the life of the 89-year-old...
Friday photo: Family Hope Center at Bachman Lake graduations
This month, Buckner leaders honored the first graduating classes of the Buckner Family Hope Center at Bachman Lake in Dallas. Joy beamed across the graduates' faces as...