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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...
Buckner Children Find Healing, Happiness at Camp Buckner
By Analiz GonzálezBuckner International(Burnett, TEXAS) — After a full day of kayaking, fishing, swimming and playing, the children from the Buckner residential homes changed into nicer clothes...
Volunteers Urgently Needed to Deliver Shoes for Orphan Souls
By Vanessa MosharafBuckner InternationalBuckner still needs volunteers to travel on upcoming Shoes for Orphan Souls trips or they may be cancelled, said George McCain, director of Buckner...
Help Your Child to Love Volunteering
Tips for getting your family started this summerBy Jenny PopeBuckner InternationalIt’s the middle of summer and your kids are getting bored. Instead of sending them off to...
How a Girl Named Maggie Changed My Life
By Louis JohnsonIt is late Friday afternoon in Guatemala City and our church's mission group is in a van headed toward the Buckner Girls Transitional Home. Later...