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Faith Focus: What's your why?
London went to college for four years, but she didn’t graduate. She admits she didn’t buckle down and focus on her education like she should...
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Prayer and Perseverance: Project HOPES helps Beaumont mom graduate with honors
The moment London Martin met Courtney Cooper, she knew it was no coincidence.
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Faith Focus: 'We changed the trajectory of his life'
Andi Harrison is director of Buckner foster care and adoption in North Texas. She’s also a foster parent. When her first foster child was placed...
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Faith Focus: Sitting on the precipice of something new
In an office near the front of the Buckner Children and Family Services campus in Longview, Texas, Buckner Family Coach Courtney Barr visits with a...
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'I'd like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free'
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a largely empty bus in Montgomery, Ala. after a long day at work as a seamstress. She walked by several rows of...
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If you have not volunteered to serve children and families in need, here’s what you’re missing
Many of us want to volunteer to help someone else but many times we don’t know how or where to start. Soon, our motivation dwindles and we settle...
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Holistic ministry: The relationship between faith and social work
I’m a Christian. And I’m a social worker. Some would even call me a Christian social worker.
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Happy Father's Day!
Involved fathers are key to building strong families. That’s why many Buckner Family Hope Centers have specific ministries where fathers gather to...
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Fathers: The key to strengthening families quickly
Social workers are trying to find it. Researchers are looking for it. Individuals desperately search for it. Lawmakers even try to legislate it.
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6 last minute tips before your mission trip
“Mission trip season" is upon us and those final hours before taking off are filled with thoughts of things we may have forgotten, double-checking...
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