The masses are cramming into public buses, the house next door is foreclosing and the cost of food keeps going up. Most of us can feel our pockets thinning; but others feel it in their gut.
Jackie Belt, director of client assistance at the Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid in Dallas, says he can’t deny the growing need.
“The needy need more and the givers have less to give,” he said. “Donors themselves are hurting. A lot of them are just trying to meet the needs of their own.”
Belt added that the economy’s problems were magnified by Ike, which brought a number of people into the Dallas area, sometimes cramming up to four families into one household.
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Shoes for Orphan Souls is usually the first to tread on new soil for Buckner ministries. And whether shoes are used to spread the Gospel directly or indirectly, they always help get a foot in the door.
Hurricane Ike raged up the Texas Gulf Coast, but Buckner Retirement Services staff kept their cool when forced to evacuate one community and brace for destruction at another.
More than 3,240 shoes were collected in Buckner International’s second annual Sole-d Out Concert on Sept. 27 in the Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid.
Buckner is Your Place to Go, Be and Do for Children
There are more than 140 million orphan children around the world. They are the world’s “least of these.” There are many more children in need, children at risk, families in extreme poverty, children who need change. That’s why Buckner International exists, to care for orphans, at-risk children and families.
Impact, transform, bless, inspire. I was prepared to live out those words when I first walked into the Buckner-run Vickery Wellness Center three years ago. I just didn’t realize that I would be the recipient of them.
Buckner Retirement Services has announced that it is safe for independent living residents to return to Calder Woods in Beaumont, although full services will not be available until Wednesday.
