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Buckner Opens Family Pathways Campus, Honors Dallas Philanthropist Annette C. Simmons
April 20, 2012
DALLAS -- Buckner International opened the Annette C. Simmons Buckner Family Pathways Campus during a 2 p.m. ceremony April 20 on the Buckner Children’s Home campus at...
Buckner CEO Kenneth Hall Retires, Albert Reyes Assumes President/CEO Title
April 19, 2012
Albert Reyes and Ken Hall shake hands in the Maris Alumni Center on the historic Buckner Children’s Campus.
Buckner Foster Care Heals Scars
April 19, 2012
Some scars never heal. They may be scars no one sees or knows about. But others are there, visible for everyone to see. When we see someone...
First Person Perspective: Delivering More than Just Shoes
April 18, 2012
When I found out Buckner was taking a mission trip to Peru, for some reason I just knew that was where I was supposed to be. I...
Mother-Daughter Trip Life-Changing, Says One 2011 Volunteer
April 16, 2012
Buckner Missions is currently seeking volunteers to travel to Honduras August 5-9 on the annual mother-daughter mission trip. Mother-daughter mission trips offer a chance to bond over...
Alabama Girl Trades Gifts for Shoes
April 12, 2012
By Lauren Hollon Sturdy Buckner International Haven Godwin is a dancer, a gymnast, a swimmer and a cyclist. She’s also a budding philanthropist who decided to forego...
Volunteers Bring Hope to the Valley through KidsHeart
April 3, 2012
By Lauren Hollon Sturdy Buckner International It was a hot, dirty, sweaty and paint-splattered spring break for churches and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship volunteers in the Rio Grande...
To Your Health
March 28, 2012
By Albert ReyesPresident, Buckner InternationalIf you’ve ever been sick – and who hasn’t? – you can appreciate being healthy. That’s something Americans take very seriously. How seriously?According...
Westminster Place is the answer for residents
March 27, 2012
By Chelsea QuackenbushJanelle Hudgins knew something was wrong with her 88-year-old mother Leoda Newsome last summer when she lost her memory overnight last August.Newsome was dehydrated and...
Medical services save a child’s life in rural Kenya
March 27, 2012
By Chelsea QuackenbushBuckner InternationalStanley lost both of his parents to HIV by time he was 6. The young Kenyan boy then lived with his aunt, who could...