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Albert Reyes: Global Vision
“I’m attracted to impossible situations,” Albert Reyes said. “I’m attracted to adversity. I’m attracted to becoming a bridge for a child or a person who doesn’t have a chance because that’s kind of where I’ve come from. That’s just how my heart beats.” |
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Go. Be. Do. with Buckner
In a not so easy world, talking about those in need is the first step, but doing actually something about it is what we does best. Go somewhere, Be a voice, and Do something with Buckner International. |
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Keep Changing the World
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Journey of a Shoe
Follow a pair of shoes from their purchase to their new owner, an orphan child - and see how far your gift can go. |
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Be the Change
Buckner International brings to attention the needs of these children around the world who are suffering in ways that with a little support can change that - one being the gift of receiving a pair of shoes. |
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Seven Reasons
This is the story of seven people with seven different stories that all came together for one common purpose - shoes for orphans. |
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Super Shoes
With anything brand new, it may give you the feeling of superiority, sometimes it is the little things you do – like giving the gift if shoes – that can make an orphan child feel that super too. |
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Shoes for Orphan Souls PSA
Shoes for Orphan Souls (SOS) provides new shoes and socks to orphans and at-risk children in the United States and throughout the world. From conducting shoe drives to humanitarian aid trips, SOS offers hands-on opportunities to individuals, groups and organizations wanting to transform lives. |
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Be a Family
Buckner Foster Care and Adoption is part of Buckner Children and Family Services, a Christian organization with a commitment to provide safe and loving home environments for at-risk children and orphans. |
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Buckner in Ethiopia
A Buckner team traveled to the small village of Bantu to help build a center and provide many humanitarian aids to orphans and families to help give them a new outlook on life. |
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Red Dot 100x
Red Dot, a business partnered with Buckner, has committed to serving children and families on a global scale over the last few years. Using their talents, gifts, and business profits, they have bettered of the lives of orphans in countries around the world. |
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Hope for the Valley
The Buckner team documents a family from the valley trying to survive by the smallest means in a trailer. With a working father, children and a mother dying from cancer, her dying wish was to be provided with a proper home . . . Buckner came to the rescue. |
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Rock The Desert
Rock the Desert 2010, the concert with a cause, goes from August 5-7 in Midland, Texas. With many premier artists in attendance, Rock the Desert has partnered up with Shoes for Orphan Souls to help provide new shoes to children all around the world. |
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Drum Intro
Bits and pieces of what Buckner does globally are complied into this brief intro, displaying Buckner’s constant dedication to promoting help through ministry to those in need. |
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ElderCare
They raised us, nurtured us and helped mold our thoughts. Their generation sacrificed their time and lives for us. Now many senior adults live in retirement communities that often do not meet the financial demands of senior adults care and they need our help. |
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Give Them Family. Give Them Home.
Give Them Home is an ambitious goal for the Dallas community to rally around our children and families in need, to raise $4.74 million in 2010 through three life-changing initiatives. |
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Buckner Extreme Homebuild
Do something extreme. Build a home for a family in a week. Watch how Louie and Idalia of Donna, Texas, live in a home exposed to the elements after experiencing twin tragedies last year. You can help build their family a home Oct. 31-Nov. 7, prior to the Baptist General Convention of Texas Annual Meeting. |
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My Father's House Lubbock
My Father’s House is an ecumenical ministry helping women obtain an education, change their lives towards God and to become self sufficient. Watch how My Father's House has helped Emily, Mandi and Rebecca achieve goals that will ensure their ability to provide for themselves and their children. |
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Vietnamese Orphans Return to their Homeland
Thirty-five years after fleeing from Vietnam, a group of Buckner orphans returned to the site of their former home as part of a reunion trip in June. |
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Hugh and Twila Smith
Twila and Hugh Smith love the supportive community that surrounds them at the Baptist Retirement Community in San Angelo, Texas. |
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Founder's Day 2010
Buckner International celebrated 131 years of serving orphans, vulnerable children and families at its annual Founder's Day event April 16 in Dallas. |
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Celeste: A Testimony of Transition
Dreams and determination can lead you to a better place. It’s what led Jamie Celeste to Buckner Transitional Home in Guatemala City, Guatemala. |
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Denise and Bruce Kendrick
This is a story of two people who give children a home and love through the Buckner Foster Parent program. While raising three biological children they opened their home and their hearts to foster children and one teenage boy that has changed their family forever. |
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Charbra Richardson
When a family has lost everything, where do they do? Where do they turn? Charbra Richardson and her family turned to Buckner Family Pathways in Amarillo, Texas. |
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Aaron Hardin
Aaron Hardin didn’t want to be involved in gang life; instead he involved himself in the Wynnewood after school program. Now he is working on his second college degree and plans to go into ministry. |
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Inside Buckner
Get an inside look on the people who help make life better for children, underprivileged children and families. Each individual working for Buckner International plays a significant part in maintaining the Buckner mission. |
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Bales for Buckner
As harvest time approaches, we are offering farmers and ginners across West Texas the chance to
make a difference in the lives of our youngsters by sharing their most abundant resource...cotton.
Your gift will help Buckner Children and Family Services of Lubbock meet the need of
West Texas children and families. |
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20K Delivery
Missouri Rotary donated over 20,000 pairs of shoes to Shoes for Orphan Souls. Watch the video to see how UPS, Texas Baptist Men, and Dallas Christian School students helped to sort the large contribution. |
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Shoe Plea
Shoes for Orphan Souls is in urgent need of shoe donations after sending thousands of pairs to Haiti. |
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11th Annual Texas Bank and Trust Sporting Clays Challenge
Sponsors helped raise more than $118,000 in net income to help enrich the lives of children and families in Northeast Texas at this annual clay shoot. |
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8th Annual Frost Bank Sporting Clays Challenge
The Frost Bank Sporting Clays Challenge aims to make life better for orphans and at-risk children. All proceeds from the shoot benefit the children and families served by Buckner in Dallas and around the world. |