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What if you could help a child in need get to school?
#RUNforSHOES starts this Friday, and we need your help to reach our goal of providing the black shoes children in two elementary schools in Santo Domingo, Dominican...
Faith Focus: The spirit of discovery
Today is Columbus Day — a day set aside to celebrate explorer Christopher Columbus’s epic landing on the Americas Oct. 12, 1492. If you live in the...
Friday photo: Family event
Presley Osborn, a nursing student at Baylor University’s Louise Harrington School of Nursing, takes a blood pressure reading from a local mother during an Oct. 1 Buckner...
Dusting off the hard hat: Retired engineers share wisdom on new construction
When a young Bob Gloyna assembled his father’s discarded wooden matches into miniature bridges and buildings, the average price of gasoline was 19 cents a gallon. While...
Non-Conformists: Changing the world one family at a time
Nearly five years after his death, Steve Jobs is largely still considered by many to be the greatest visionary and innovator of his generation. He escorted computers...
Run for shoes. Run for education.
Karen is a bright 14-year-old who lives in the Eduardo Brito community in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Many of the families who live in this community live...
Faith Focus: A choice to act
In the book “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World,” Adam Grant noted that when experts rated U.S. presidents on their desire to please others and avoid conflict,...
Friday photo: Blessing
The Gabriel Apartment Sunday School class at First Baptist Church in Midland, Texas, recently delivered an SUV-load of kitchen supplies that equipped the kitchens of two Buckner Family Pathways...
Rays of joy
It was a sweltering 99 degrees, unusually warm for Dallas in late September. There wasn’t a single cloud in the sky and rays of sunlight covered the...
We must always remember where many of the families we serve come from
Families often come to Buckner Family Pathways when they’ve tried everything else to better their situations on their own without seeing any improvement. They’ve realized they need help,...