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Friday photo: Shoes and smiles
Children in Chiapas, Mexico, were all smiles this summer after receiving a brand new pair of shoes through a local Shoes for Orphan Souls distribution.
8 ways to get involved with Buckner in 2016
1. Host a shoe drive. Encourage your church, school, business or organization to collect shoes by signing up to host a shoe drive. Your shoe drive can...
‘My greatest burden’ | Buckner Kenya’s Rose Wasike lives out mission to help impoverished children
Story and photography by Chelsea White When asked about her work for orphans and children in poverty, the normally upbeat Rose Wasike pauses as tears fill her...
Faith Focus: Prayer requests from the Family Hope Center at Wynnewood in Dallas
To kick off 2016, we’re asking the Buckner family to pray for specific ministries. This week, we're focusing on the Family Hope Center at Wynnewood, which serves...
What are you doing this summer? | Project Go application deadline nearing!
What makes a Buckner mission trip, like Project Go, different from other organizations? People like Mama Rose, who has worked for Buckner for eight years in her...
Faith Focus: Climbing out of a spiritual rut
Ruth Reichl has carved quite a career for herself out of food. She began as a chef, then became a food critic for major newspapers and now...
Faith Focus: The 10 strangest days of my life
Juxtaposition is strange and poignant, particularly when it happens naturally in life. Months of anticipation boiled over into excitement as my son was born Dec. 2. He’s...
From the mission field: Pity or compassion?
A tiny girl, barefooted, dirty and alone, silhouetted among mountains of sparkling broken glass, recycled plastic and other trash, caught my eye. A cheerful “hola” brought a...
Faith Focus: Why our New Year’s resolutions may fail
On Jan. 1, it’s go time. Our New Year’s resolutions will be on the clock. The journey to lose weight, pull ourselves out of debt or take...
Advent | This is our God, our Immanuel
"Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call him Immanuel (which means, God with us)." –Matthew 1:23 (ESV) It’s such a fragile...