Archive for October, 2009

By Analiz G. Schremmer
Buckner International
LUBBOCK, Texas — Barbara and Sean Smith have fostered more than 50 children, so people assume it’s because they can’t say no.
“Oh, we can say no,” Barbara clarified. “We just don’t want to miss out on the blessing.”

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
SUDAN, Texas – When 10-month-old Samantha arrived in the Baker’s home, she was so weak she couldn’t sit up in her crib.
“She wouldn’t make a noise. She just laid there,” Crystal Baker remembered. “We’d walk in and it was so sad. She’d be laying in her little bed, her eyes never [...]

By Analiz G. Schremmer
AMARILLO, Texas – Tim and December Barcoft love children.
They lead children’s Sunday school as a couple and December is studying to be a teacher. But they haven’t had children of their own.
“Because we haven’t been blessed with our own kids yet, we see it as God’s way of asking us to do [...]

By Susan Serrano
Dillon International
WILLOW PARK, TEXAS—It’s a love story with some tears at the beginning. Overjoyed at the birth of their son, Carter, two years earlier, Mike and Libby Skaggs, members of Hulen Street Baptist in Fort Worth, eagerly planned to expand their family. But their dream was sidetracked by devastating news: “We learned we [...]

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
It all started with a single word, scrawled into the margins on Cyndi Krawietz’s Bible. Adoption? It was written with a question mark.
“I had written it there in January 2004,” she said. “It just seemed so impossible then. I thought there’s no way we could ever afford it.”

By Analiz G. Schremmer
BEAUMONT, Texas – Monica Garrett always dreamed of being a foster group home parent.
“When I accepted this job, I accepted a calling. I know this is what I was called to do. I know this is what I was supposed to do,” she said.
“It is amazing to be able to give a [...]

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
(DALLAS, Texas) — Families traveled around the world and back Feb. 28 at the annual Adoption Heritage Day at Buckner Children’s Home in East Dallas. More than 88 people and 25 volunteers attended the event designed to help international adoptive families connect with their child’s culture and with each other.

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
A group of Russian orphans will make the trip of a lifetime as they travel across the world to stay with American host families this August.

By Analiz González
It was over 90 degrees, but when she climbed out of the family car, her hands were shaking.
She clutched her black purse to steady them and glanced at Phil and Sandy Carlberg for support. She’d anticipated this moment for as far back as she could remember.

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
When Ellinor Nixon sees a clean room, she sees more than dust-free floors and neatly made beds. She sees inside a child’s mind.
“If a child’s bedroom is all jumbled up and messy, it looks like their mind,” she said. “But when I see a child cleaning, organizing their rooms, they’re being healed. [...]