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Weaver volunteers calculate perfect assistance at perfect time
HOUSTON – In the past few months, the Buckner Family Hope Center Houston/Aldine received an unprecedented number of in-kind donations, so many clothes and toys that staff...
Make a difference for kids like Dustin through school supplies
There’s nothing quite like the potential in a new box of crayons. Just thinking about it, you can almost smell them, can’t you? New crayons, freshly sharpened...
Circus act builds self-esteem in South Dallas children served by Buckner
In an effort to promote self-esteem in at-risk children, The Artist Outreach has a solution: send in the clowns. The nonprofit arranged a clown workshop to share...
Dreaming big dreams: Education defines family’s past successes and future hopes
Nicolas and Sara Flores know what it means to have nothing. Growing up in Tampico, Mexico, they had plenty of it. He went to work as a...
The theology of adoption: Meurer family sees foster care, adoption as calling
By Russ DildayPhotography by Nathan ChandlerKerra Meurer has always had a heart for children, says her husband, Micah, pastor of Paramount Baptist Church’s River Road campus in...
Beaumont Foundation generously supports Buckner International
Beaumont Foundation of America committed to helping vulnerable children through Buckner International with a gift of $133,500 in 2014.Beaumont Foundation of America Chief Operating Officer Edward Keller...
Shoe trip veteran recounts favorite mission trip moments
By Lauren Hollon SturdySonja Fowler is a mission trip expert. At 74 years old, she has 10 international trips under her belt since 2004, and has taken...
Get to know two of the first Peruvian foster families
The Chavez familyThirteen year old Briana has lived with her foster family for six years. Her birth mom and her foster mom, Violeta Chavez, had been friends...
Fighting for family: Blessings come in threes for foster-to-adopt family
Story by Chelsea Quackenbush Photography by Lauren Hollon SturdyMicah and Sarah Brown get weird looks when they’re out in public with their kids but luckily, they handle...
Do Family Transition Programs really make a lasting difference?
Buckner Family Transition Programs are residential programs for single-parent families who are seeking education and self-sufficiency. Families live in an apartment or duplex on a Buckner campus...