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6 Ways to Support Foster Families When Fostering Isn’t Your Calling
By Lauren Hollon Sturdy Buckner International You've probably heard a lot about foster care during the month of May, National Foster Care Month. But you may be...
Buckner Foster Care Heals Scars
Some scars never heal. They may be scars no one sees or knows about. But others are there, visible for everyone to see. When we see someone...
First Person Perspective: Delivering More than Just Shoes
When I found out Buckner was taking a mission trip to Peru, for some reason I just knew that was where I was supposed to be. I...
Mother-Daughter Trip Life-Changing, Says One 2011 Volunteer
Buckner Missions is currently seeking volunteers to travel to Honduras August 5-9 on the annual mother-daughter mission trip. Mother-daughter mission trips offer a chance to bond over...
Alabama Girl Trades Gifts for Shoes
By Lauren Hollon Sturdy Buckner International Haven Godwin is a dancer, a gymnast, a swimmer and a cyclist. She’s also a budding philanthropist who decided to forego...
Volunteers Bring Hope to the Valley through KidsHeart
By Lauren Hollon Sturdy Buckner International It was a hot, dirty, sweaty and paint-splattered spring break for churches and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship volunteers in the Rio Grande...
Supplies Needed for Summer Missions!
Project Go needs your help! Project Go is a summer missions program for college students and recent graduates who want to serve orphans and vulnerable children. They...
First Person Perspective: Unspoken Joy
My third week in Peru, my team and I served the community of Pamplona at a Buckner Community Transformation Center. I had only been in Peru for...
Buckner Missions now accepting applications for Project Go 2012
Summer may seem like a far-off dream right now for many young people who have been so unceremoniously yanked from the leisurely days of Christmas break back...
Buckner domestic CTC walks with families for change
By Chelsea Quackenbush Buckner International PENITAS, Texas – Alberto Diaz’s five-year-old daughter used to ask him why it would continue to rain inside their trailer though it...