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You can help ship aid to Haitian earthquake victims

[caption id="attachment_2024" align="aligncenter" width="482" caption="Buckner is collecting new tents, blankets, personal care items and first aid kits to ship to Haiti earthquake relief efforts. We're collecting at...
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Buckner, Dillon International Respond to Haiti Crisis

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Buckner and its international adoption affiliate, Dillon International, announced Wednesday that the organizations will collect funds to...
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Kenya Children Learn Dental Hygiene from Mission Team

By Analiz G. Schremmer(NAIROBI, Kenya)—A group of Buckner orphans in Kenya learned about oral health during a seminar led by a group of short-term mission volunteers in...
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From Russia to Texas

By Analiz G. Schremmer WACO, Texas — Sugar and spice and Russian adoption—twice. Sarah and Natalie, ages 6 and 7, became part of the Bull family in...
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Music in the Buckner Villas

By Analiz G. SchremmerAUSTIN—Dr. Lillian Brown can’t sing with her voice, so she does it with her piano.Brown, 89, said that when she moved to Buckner Villas...
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Young Life Comes to Camp Buckner in 2010

BURNET, Texas – Young Life, a non-denominational Christian organization that seeks to share Jesus Christ with adolescents through relational ministry, will host middle school and high school...
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Wake-up Call

On Saturday I saw poverty. They didn't warn us. Saturday morning after a much needed deep sleep after a busy day of travel, we woke up and...
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Resolve to Do Something in 2010

A new decade is upon us, and there are more orphans and vulnerable children in need than ever before. Resolve to do something in 2010 to make...
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Guatemalan Orphan Finds Home

By Analiz G. Schremmer(DALLAS, Texas)—More than two years after the adoption process started, Juan Pablo finally came home with his family.On December 9, the 7-year-old bounded into...
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Lost and Found

By Cheryl WilsonAs told to Jenny PopeWhen I was 17, I got pregnant and dropped out of high school. And to make things worse, I married him....
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