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Faith Focus: Prayer requests from the Family Hope Center at Wynnewood in Dallas
To kick off 2016, we’re asking the Buckner family to pray for specific ministries. This week, we're focusing on the Family Hope Center at Wynnewood, which serves...
Friday photo: Univision collects shoes for Buckner
Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls partnered with Univision Dallas in December to collect shoes. The shoe drive began with a volunteer day at the warehouse when the...
LONGVIEW: Buckner residents put pen to paper, write letters to military personnel
The Longview-News Journal just ran a story about residents at Buckner Westminster Place who are writing letters to members of the military stationed overseas in honor of...
Thank you Buckner supporters
Buckner wishes to thank the following corporations, foundations and other organizations for their charitable contributions of $1,000 or more during the third quarter of 2015. (more…)
What are you doing this summer? | Project Go application deadline nearing!
What makes a Buckner mission trip, like Project Go, different from other organizations? People like Mama Rose, who has worked for Buckner for eight years in her...
Faith Focus: Climbing out of a spiritual rut
Ruth Reichl has carved quite a career for herself out of food. She began as a chef, then became a food critic for major newspapers and now...
Faith Focus: The 10 strangest days of my life
Juxtaposition is strange and poignant, particularly when it happens naturally in life. Months of anticipation boiled over into excitement as my son was born Dec. 2. He’s...
From the mission field: Pity or compassion?
A tiny girl, barefooted, dirty and alone, silhouetted among mountains of sparkling broken glass, recycled plastic and other trash, caught my eye. A cheerful “hola” brought a...
Faith Focus: Why our New Year’s resolutions may fail
On Jan. 1, it’s go time. Our New Year’s resolutions will be on the clock. The journey to lose weight, pull ourselves out of debt or take...
Advent | This is our God, our Immanuel
"Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call him Immanuel (which means, God with us)." –Matthew 1:23 (ESV) It’s such a fragile...