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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. They’re going through the healing process.” Read More

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.” Read More

By Analiz González
Buckner International

(MELISSA, Texas) — In Reyna and Daniel’s world, there were no bugs, no guinea pigs and definitely no horses.

What they knew was a strict schedule: bunk beds with several children to a room and night lights that went across the edge of the floor like fire flies in the dark. There were no permanent moms or dads. There was only the hope of them. Read More

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International

Four-year-old Kellie Hodson loves to twirl in her pink dress. She makes faces with her big brother Jonathan, shares secrets with her Mom and rides the four-wheeler with her dad whenever she gets the chance. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More