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Having COVID re-entry anxiety?

Amy Curtis, senior director of counseling for Buckner Children and Family Services, wrote this article for the Baptist News Global. She explains how the shift back to our...
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Kids’ creativity highlighted at Houston Astros game

Kids at the Buckner Family Hope Centers at Reed Road and Aldine in Houston, Texas, had the opportunity to share their creativity with the Houston Astros baseball...
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Take another look

Do you often feel like you are being ambushed? Do the challenges of life sometimes leave you feeling overwhelmed and fearful of things to come? What do...
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Local business helps send children in foster care to camp

The team at Star Properties Real Estate in the Rio Grande Valley continued its annual tradition of helping send children in foster care to summer camp with...
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Walking hand-in-hand with biological families

The goal of foster care is to remove children from unsafe or unhealthy environments and place them in a safe home while their birth family works toward...
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What grief has taught me

It can be difficult to talk about grief, and often it’s hard to know what to say to someone who has lost a loved one. Often times,...
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Will you say yes or no?

At different times in my life, I have heard from God about something he wanted me to do. Sometimes I was obedient and did as he asked...
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Single mom finds confidence to take on the world

Entering the Buckner Family Pathways program allows single parents to work on their education while providing a safe and stable home for their children. They also receive...
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Global reach

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...
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Where do you go when hope seems lost?

Have you ever had a “suddenly” in your life that just took the wind out of your sails? The loss of someone special whom you loved, a...
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