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The keeper
October 11, 2024
Imagine that ancient time before email, websites, social media and laptops. Back then, computers were the size of a car and programmers spent hours writing code, coaxing...
Just for a time
May 30, 2024
Let’s start with the numbers. 150. 10. 2. We’ll come back to that. Paul Ledet glances away for a split second and then looks back. He’s remembering...
Stitched together
December 21, 2023
Claudia Pérez Ramirez's neighbor told her about Buckner. But she had to see for herself to believe it was true. She attended a Buckner informational program at...
Little by little
December 14, 2023
It was a chance encounter but no accident when the team from Buckner Mexico met Guillermina Santos Ventura. She was sweeping dirt outside her meager home not...
The journey to hope
July 13, 2023
Let’s start this story at the end. When Annette Chavez leaves Buckner Family Pathways® in Longview, Texas, later this year, she’ll drive away with both an...
Breaking generational cycles
August 4, 2022
Brooklyn Cole was there as a pre-teen sister when her little brother Anthony was born. She even cut his umbilical cord. More than 10 years later, Cole...
Swallowed up by life
August 9, 2021
Not long after we were married, my wife and I purchased a tent from a co-worker. We loved it so much we soon bought a pop-up camper,...
Global reach
July 13, 2021
It took 10 years for the name to change, but only one trip to change Buckner. The trip was on an exploratory journey in 1995 by then-President...
Paying it backward and forward
June 8, 2021
Rishun Beasley spends her days looking for something she’s already found. It’s a search that drives her every morning and one she knows will never end. It...
What justice looks like depends on where you’re standing
June 2, 2021
Scott Collins, senior vice president of communications for Buckner International, originally wrote this column for the Baptist Standard as part of a special series "Justice looks like ..." allowing...