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Back to school: Family Hope Center volunteers teach participants joy of reading

Jerutha Platt needed to pick up her medication, one of many errands she had to run that day. She wanted to bounce in, pick up her pills...
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Buckner makes going back to school easier for vulnerable children

Going back to school is easier this fall for vulnerable children, thanks to Buckner International efforts across the state. Working with a variety of partners, Buckner distributed...
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An experience. And a calling.

The moment I stepped off of a bus on my first international mission trip and mentally photographed a smile from a little boy, I experienced a feeling...
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Friday photo: San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Two children at the Buckner Family Hope Center in the Las Brisas community of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Buckner staff is helping their mothers with spiritual development,...
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Faith Focus: Let it shine

“You are the light of the world, so let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”...
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Hope’s blossom

Five years ago at the edge of a bayou, Vanessa Brown of Houston had reached the edge of her life when addiction, depression, her car and a...
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Faith Focus: Fighting words

"For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of...
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Friday photo: Dominican Republic

Eduardo Brito Family Hope Center in the Dominican Republic. Taken in July 2015.
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Elizabeth Toon Charities presents $10,000 to Buckner Family Hope Center at Wynnewood

DALLAS – Elizabeth Toon Charities presented $10,000 July 27 to the Buckner Family Hope Center at Wynnewood to support the ministry’s after-school program. "We love that Buckner...
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Buckner opens new Peru Family Hope Center

LIMA, Peru – Buckner International opened the newest Family Hope Center, Villa Hermosa, in Pamplona, an impoverished neighborhood in the nation's capital. It is the second Hope...
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