Archive for the 'International Adoption' Category

Free Interest Meeting March 2 at Dillon International Office in Dallas
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.
The program, called Angels from Abroad , provides older children a chance to learn about American culture, share their [...]

Buckner Foster Care and Adoption Urgently Recruits Families to Meet the Demand
DALLAS – Last year in Texas, an estimated 12,750 children were left waiting for an adoptive family. These children were removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect and placed into the foster care system. After their parents’ rights were terminated, they needed [...]

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 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
Buckner International
LiLi wore pig tales with a tiny pink pom pom on one side of her head. In a small purse, she carried every picture, every note her family had mailed her.

By Jenny Pope
“Jacob, tuck in your shirt.”
“Micah, come stand by Mommy.”
The 6-year-old twins shuffle and twirl around the Tarrant County Family Law Center lobby as their mother tries to coax them into the courtroom.