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Hargett named executive director of Baptist Retirement Community

Buckner Retirement Services named Aaron Hargett as executive director of Baptist Retirement Community, effective Sept. 1. Hargett has served Baptist Retirement since 2007, first as administrator of...
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Buckner Family Pathways: 20 years of transformation

Buckner Family Pathways is a family preservation program designed to help single parents strengthen their families and reduce barriers to self-sufficiency, lack of education and independent life...
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Buckner Family Pathways equips single parents to dream

Thirty-four percent of children whose parents lack a college education live in poverty. Fifty-nine percent of young children in poor families live with a single parent. For...
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Faith Focus: What to do when you’re not good enough

Robbie is a hero of mine. He has been for some time. I admire the energy he brings to every room he walks into, his ability to...
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Buckner shines hope after Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey’s legacy will continue in Houston and Southeast Texas, and our ministries were affected as well. Many of those we serve experienced hardship – and so...
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More than a meal: How the dining experience impacts senior adults

For senior adults, the dining experience is more than just a meal. It's an opportunity to socialize with neighbors, engage in conversation and build relationships. It's what makes...
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Pain and poverty: Amarillo youth overcomes abuse and abandonment

Energetic, humorous and bright, Briana Gardner is a lively mother filled with courage and tenacity. But she remembers a time when her life was filled with uncertainty...
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Loving with ‘Jesus in my heart’

Meet Maria Lucila Valentino de Cabezas: Animated. Bubbly. Expressive. Energetic. Devout. Joyous.
“God has given me the gift of being joyful,” she said. “Happiness is within my heart....
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Faith Focus: Do what you need to do

Dequante “DQ” Thomas couldn’t have imagined as a single, 27-year-old man, he’d know all the words to “Let It Go” from Disney’s Frozen. But when his 4-year-old niece,...
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“Held by the hand of God”—Parkway Place assistant dining director, foster parent, rebuilds after Harvey

In the last seven years, Parkway Place assistant food service director Duane Davis has served as a foster parent for nearly four dozen children in Houston foster...
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