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Join Buckner at the Texas Rangers Game Sept. 24

Monday, Sept. 19, is your LAST CHANCE to buy tickets in the Buckner block for the Sept. 24 Texas Rangers game! DALLAS – Buckner International will be...
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Buckner Mexico Seeing Green

By Lauren Hollon SturdyBuckner InternationalMEXICO — The Pan de Vida foster group home in Mexico City recently harvested more than 1,000 pounds of tomatoes, but they’re not...
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Adoptive Family Blossoms in the Desert

By Lauren Hollon SturdyBuckner InternationalIn Amherst, Texas, nearly 50 miles northwest of Lubbock, the summer is scorching hot. There hasn’t been any rain for weeks, and the...
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Family of 70 Keeps Growing

By Jenny PopeBuckner InternationalHishia and Rickey Conner have parented more than 70 children in the past five years at Buckner Children’s Home in Lubbock, Texas.“Some reunite with...
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‘Step Forward for Orphans March’ to Advocate for a Child’s Right to a Permanent Family

Child welfare leaders and advocates will unite 2 p.m. Aug. 26 on Capitol Hill to speak for children in need of families throughout the world at the...
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Family Pathways Helps Single Mother Find Strength

By Diamond RichardsonBuckner InternationalDALLAS – Keidra Perry knows that nothing in life is promised.Years before Perry arrived at Buckner Family Pathways, she had the life she always...
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A Rose is a Rose

By Lauren Hollon SturdyBuckner InternationalJoran Rose had every reason not to trust.Removed from a negligent and abusive mother’s care at age 4, he was in and out...
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Buckner Family Place rescues two moms

By Lauren Hollon SturdyBuckner InternationalMIDLAND, Texas – Ida Torres and her two children lived in fear. Neikedra Butler and her three kids never knew if they were...
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The More Family, the Merrier

By Jenny PopeBuckner InternationalThe Duncan twins couldn’t be more different.Aaron, 2, is mechanical and hands-on. He loves taking things apart and putting them back together, playing outside...
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Following the ‘Master Plan’

By Jenny PopeBuckner InternationalMIDLAND, Texas – The Ewing family does everything together – they wash dishes, go grocery shopping, and spend hours play Wii games in the...
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