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Adoption Gives East Texas Family ‘Additional Blessing’
By Jenny PopeBuckner InternationalFour-year-old Kellie Hodson loves to twirl in her pink dress. She makes faces with her big brother Jonathan, shares secrets with her Mom and...
Educate Yourself: Back to School Around the Globe
By Vanessa Mosharaf and Analiz GonzálezBuckner InternationalWe see it in the movies all the time: children grumbling because summer is over, reeling in the imminent dread of...
A Simple Request from a Hungry Homeless Woman
By Analiz GonzalezBuckner InternationalThere were about eight people living in the tent. It had been a week since Hurricane Dolly, so they’d been sleeping under the elements...
CBF, Buckner Launch New Ministry Along U.S./Mexico Border
By Carla Wynn DavisCBF Communications(ATLANTA, Georgia) – Buckner International, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Missions, and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of the West will work together to establish...
Buckner Children Receive Inspiration, Training at Legacy Sports Camp
By Vanessa MosharafBuckner International(FRISCO, Texas) — Smiles were abundant on the playing fields at Legacy Christian Academy in Frisco as 72 children from Buckner community programs learned...
Buckner Missionaries Reach Out to Chatinos, Mixtecos
By Analiz GonzálezBuckner International(OAXACA, Mexico) — A group of 38 mission volunteers who traveled to Mexico last year may have been the first U.S. teams to visit...
KidsHeart Missionaries ‘Pay it Forward’
By Analiz GonzálezBuckner International(Rio Grande Valley, TEXAS) — Twenty-five-year-old Matthew Ryan Yow died in a car accident in May.But two months later, Matthew’s mom, Susan, and his...
Summer Community Programs Keep Metroplex Children Active
By Vanessa MosharafBuckner International(DALLAS, Texas) — Ten-year-old Kewona Jones from Wynnewood Community Services Center confidently shared a poem she wrote called Stress Relief to an audience of...
Buckner Weathers Dolly; Help Sought for Colonias
(MISSION, Texas) – Buckner Children and Family Services’ Rio Grande Children’s Home fared well through Hurricane Dolly, suffering only a blackout.However, according to Buckner staff based in...
Hymnal Holds More than Three Decades of Precious Memories
By Vanessa MosharafBuckner InternationalKen Shotts, 82, remembers everything he learns about the residents living at Buckner Retirement Village. He writes it all down in his hymn book...