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Faith Focus: Intentional living for Christ
Chances are this devotion arrived in your inbox quietly after a pile of weekend junk mail and before the deluge of early morning messages about the million...
Friday photo: Families are never alone
At Buckner Family Pathways, families are never alone. At Family Pathways, families build lasting relationships not only with each other but with Buckner staff as well, like Holly Valentine,...
Coming full circle
The paper cover of a rectangular Snapfolio book from Edwards Photo Service in Tyler, Texas, is worn soft from years of being passed from box to box,...
Buckner Spring Break house build blitz set to radically transform lives of seven families in one week
This week, teams from across the state are striving to build more homes simultaneously than Buckner International has ever attempted during Spring Break in Peñitas, Texas. “We...
Family Pathways Dallas: A Place of healing
To Stephanie Richards, Buckner Family Pathways in Dallas is a place of healing. "I consider myself one of God’s servants with a broken wing,” she said. “I’m...
Faith Focus: ‘The pleasing aroma of Christ’
When Vivi first came to her Buckner foster home, she was frightened to be away from her foster mother, Robin. Her foster mother meant comfort, safety and...
Friday photo: Property prayer
Last week, 80 volunteers participated in a clean up and prayer walk at the proposed site of the new Buckner Family Hope Center at Bachman Lake in...
Quilts of many colors
In the second bedroom of her Buckner Villas home, you’ll find Jean Ferris thoughtfully stitching together quilts on her 1965 Singer sewing machine. It’s the same machine...
Seeds of faith – Rebecca Barker Trent
Rhonda Horton and Rachel Haas grew up listening to their mother tell them about their great-grandmother, Rebecca Barker Trent, who grew up at Buckner Orphans Home. For...
The biblical call to become a foster parent
The most commonly quoted Bible verse regarding foster care and adoption is James 1:27: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to...