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Catching spies, keeping peace
Joe Erwin isn’t someone you want to cross. The Buckner Westminster Place resident is a retired U.S. Army Intelligence member, a certified lie detector and has led...
Volunteering from the heart
When Robert Buelna and Janeth Wilson first began volunteering with Buckner, they had no idea the impact it would have on their lives. They wanted to change...
Just keep working: creative hobbies maintain brain agility
Stitches carefully woven into a colorful quilt. Wooden slabs painstakingly carved into miniature cars. Yarn spun into dozens of tiny caps. What if these weren’t just evidence...
Adoptive family speaks to Good Morning Texas
Buckner foster and adoptive parents Marcus and Tamasan Murph speak to Good Morning Texas about their journey to foster-to-adopt four children, including a sibling group of three,...
Rio Grande Valley family sees bright future constructed just outside its doorstep
PEÑITAS, Texas – Maria Luisa Morales’ future was so close, it was right outside the front door of the aging one-room travel trailer that currently serve as home for...
Faith Focus: Do you have the courage?
New to Peñitas, Texas with few friends, Abigail Garcia didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she followed a classmate’s recommendation to go to the...
A friendship 67 years in the making
June Heck and Peggy Terell Tooker graduated from Lubbock High School in 1948. They were just acquaintances, nothing more. But 67 years later, June sat next to...
Friday photo: Building the future
This week, a Woman's Missionary Union of Texas team is finishing the construction of a home through Buckner Domestic Missions for the Morales family who have been participating...
Calder Woods participates in Reminiscence Therapy program
Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or dementia is a full-time job not everyone is equipped to perform. And because November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness...
National Adoption Month: Meet the McCarthys
Buckner foster-to-adopt parents David and April McCarthy adopted five boys, including three teens, through foster care who joined their three biological sons to become a band of...