Buckner Children and Family Services in Beaumont, Texas, has a longstanding history of providing care for children who desperately need families. The history of our work in this area has been focused on those children who need a more therapeutic approach to their care – children who come to us with harrowing histories marked by trauma and abuse.
Stan’s [...]
By Chelsea Quackenbush
Photos by Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International
BEAUMONT – Dave “Daddy Dave” Bleakley first met Amelia by chance at a Buckner Children’s Village reunion in Beaumont. Two-week-old Amelia was the youngest alumna and Daddy Dave was the oldest. Buckner staff thought it would make a cool photo, so they placed the tiny girl in his [...]
Welcome! A new year begins new blog content on the Be a Family website. We at Buckner hope you’ll visit often for content related to foster care and adoption of all types. Under the category “Weekly Updates from the Experts,” you’ll find information from Buckner experts throughout our system, including our affiliation with Dillon International. It [...]
Dec 14, 2011
Filed in Foster Care
By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
Hishia and Rickey Conner have parented more than 70 children in the past five years at Buckner Children’s Home in Lubbock, Texas.
“Some reunite with their families, some age out. But most of them keep in touch and let us know how they are doing. We try to provide for them when we [...]
Reprinted from the Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 4, 2011
It’s not that Tim and December Barcroft wouldn’t love to be in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. They would be among 150 others nationally to be honored at a gala as part of the Angels in Adoption awards through the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
It’s just they can’t.
Tim has a [...]
DALLAS, Texas – Four Buckner families were recognized as 2011 Angels in Adoption for their outstanding advocacy for foster care and adoption by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) in Washington, D.C. at an awards ceremony and gala Oct. 5.
Oct 30, 2009
Filed in Foster Care
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 [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Filed in Foster Care
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 [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Filed in Foster Care
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. [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Filed in Foster Care
By Analiz González
Buckner International
Mona Harvey opens a Bible and reads to her two foster children from the first story she finds.
“Hannah had no children and that made her very sad.” Mona pauses to laugh. “How ironic,” she says, and goes back to reading. “But in time, God gave her Samuel.”
