Buckner Family Hope Center®

Stronger together
What you do makes a difference: A difference with a purpose
Our annual event celebrating the work of our Buckner team members is always a highlight of the year for me. The Gathering, which we celebrated April...
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High school best friends volunteer together to make a difference
The seniors formed meaningful connections with each other and others during their volunteer service
Best friends since sixth grade, Thanh Phan and Derria Money were determined to find a way to continue to have fun together when they began attending...
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It's National Volunteer Month
Help build a strong community
April is National Volunteer Month, and at Buckner International, we appreciate all our volunteers around the world. From packing and distributing...
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Are you willing to share a part of your life?
A devotion for National Volunteer Week
Every Sunday afternoon we open our home to anyone who wants to come and celebrate Sabbath with us. It’s a time to share a meal, have communion and...
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Returning starfish to the ocean
National Child Abuse Prevention Month: Building strong and healthy families is key to prevention
Most of us have heard of the starfish story. An old man is walking along the beach and sees a boy throwing starfish on the sand back into the ocean,...
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Four ways to share the Easter story with your children
At Easter, we celebrate how Christ died and was resurrected from the grave to save us, his children, from death as sinners. As adults, we understand...
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Don't forget where God is
A devotion for Easter
Our world has mastered how to create and force feed distractions and influences. Many of these distractions have pushed our eyes away from the cross,...
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A Kenyan female’s perspective on period poverty – World Health Day
Lack of feminine hygiene products affects education, finances and relationships
Linet Aguma is the program manager at the Buckner Family Hope Center™ in Kenya. Today on World Health Day, she explains how period poverty is...
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Family conversations about child abuse and neglect
A key to prevention
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Juanita Alonzo, a FAYS Case manager at Buckner International and a Universal Child Abuse Prevention...
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God's plan: You are chosen
A devotion about trusting God's plan
In September 2017, I was laid off from my job of 10 years. By nature, I am a planner. So, you could imagine how I felt when my so-called plan had...
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