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Password to my Heart
By Heather MoodyElwood, Indiana“HueHue 01-08” was the password for my computer at work. Traveling to a Spanish speaking country and doing mission work as the hands and...
Looking into our Future
By Reb WayneAustin, TexasImagine getting on a plane in Dallas/Fort Worth headed to Frankfurt, Germany to meet 20 individuals you've never met and never laid eyes on,...
Honduras Photo Gallery
Bare feet, shaved heads and desperate circumstances abound in Honduran orphanages. Russ Dilday, director of communications, visited many of these orphanages during an exploratory mission trip in...
Sunshine in Russia
By Ronne RockBuckner Marketing DirectorThey say Russia only gets 40 days of sunshine a year. I think they’re wrong.My husband and I journeyed to St. Petersburg, Russia,...
Loaves and Fishes?
By Dave JollySilvis, IllinoisThere are so many memories that come to my mind as I think about our time in Kenya. I remember the little school which...
The Rainy Season
By Mason KingIsaiah left the game to sit along the wall of the auditorium. With alarming speed he had moved from joyful to sullen and unresponsive. A...
Serving orphans is nothing like ‘Annie’
By Brent KeslerDallas, Texas My daily life is too easy. I live in a nice little neighborhood, in a nice little community. I drive a nice little...
Learning to Love
By Brittney HarmonAlpha, IllinoisAll morning my team was having difficulties finding shoes for every child; it didn’t seem as if there were enough sizes for everyone. By...
“A Child of God. A Child of Ours. A Child Named Winnie”
Beth Bateman, New Windsor, ILKenya SOS August 2007It was an ordinary day on a Shoes for Orphan Souls trip in Kenya. That is what I thought anyway....
“Have you found me a Momma and Poppa?”
By Debbie WynneDirector, Buckner Adoption and Maternity ServicesThis is a question that I have been asked many times from children who anxiously wait to be adopted. It...