Archive for the 'Foster To Adopt' Category

CARTHAGE, Texas – Jim and Linda Kimberly were sitting on the porch on Easter Sunday, watching their youngest son Jared play with his cousins, when they felt the call.
“Jim said, ‘You know, I’d like to take up the idea of fostering,’” Linda recalled. “So we did it. We just really felt called to it.”

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 Rebekah Hardage
Communications Intern
(WINNSBORO, Texas) — Not many parents can say the first time they saw their daughter was on TV, but the moment Geno and Lisa Hill saw Deidre’s smiling face on a local television news program, they knew she would be a part of their family.

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
They keep each baby’s picture on their refrigerator like family photos on a mantle – innocent faces lined up in the order of their arrival to the home. Mark and Jacquie Craggett go through the photos and call each child by name: Raquelle, Anthony, Nathan, Desi, William, Maya, Hayden, Peanut, Brian.