Webinar: 30-Day Discovery for Families Growing through Foster Care & Adoption

WEBINAR: Ready or Not with Pam Parish

Oct. 20, 2015

6:30-8:00 p.m.

Pam Parish, author, mother, mentor and foster parent trainer, will share her passion and heart for serving foster youth in this informative and inspiring webinar.

Parish is a committed advocate for foster teens and young adults. She and her husband have seven young adult daughters, one biological and six adopted.

We recommend Parish's first devotional book, "Ready or Not: A 30-Day Discovery for Families Growing through Foster Care and Adoption," to every new prospective foster parent. The book provides an honest look at her family's journey through foster care and adoption.
"When you step into the lives of a young person coming into your life through foster care or adoption, there's no way to know what that journey is going to look like for you," Parish says. "But there is a way to know what God's word has to say about it. So that's my prayer for you: that Ready or Not would be your key to God's heart when it comes to caring for the fatherless." 

To register, email Sharon Hedrick at shedrick@buckner.org.

Foster Care Month: 30 Days of Prayer

 

Did you know there are more than 402,000 children in foster care in the United States?

May is National Foster Care Month. Join us as we spend the month in prayer for children in foster care, their families, foster and adoptive families, and families considering foster care and adoption.

Buckner International's daily devotionals, written by those who minister to orphans and vulnerable children on a daily basis, are designed to lead you in specific ways to pray and to inspire you with stories of hope. Sign up today to receive these daily devotional emails delivered to your email inbox for 30 days.

"Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you." James 1:27 (NLT)

Shoes for Orphaned Souls

Buckner International is celebrating the 15th anniversary of Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls

and they need you to help them reach an exciting goal: delivering the 3 millionth pair of shoes by the end of 2014.

  

People are needed to support Shoes for Orphan Souls this year by praying, donating a pair of new shoes, hosting a shoe drive where you live or traveling to deliver new shoes to orphans and vulnerable children.  Check out the following video to learn more, or visit www.shoesfororphansouls.org. 

Free Advent Devotional Guide from Buckner

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Advent celebrates the coming of the Savior, a period of expectant waiting and preparation both for the birth and earthly ministry of Christ and for His imminent return. This year, Buckner is offering a special way to celebrate and anticipate Christ with a daily devotional guide written by those who serve the "least of these" to take you through the Advent season. The 2012 Buckner Advent Devotional Guide is free of charge. Click here to reserve your copies today and they'll mail them to you between Nov. 2 and Nov. 16. You can also sign up to receive daily devotional emails in your inbox each morning. Click here to sign up.

Adoptive Families Urgently Needed for Russian Orphans

Russian children are being turned away from the adoption process due to a lack of adoptive families, but outcomes for Russian orphans who grow up and age out of orphanages are bleak at best.


Families should never take the decision to adopt lightly, but for those who feel called, Russia is an excellent option with the process currently taking far less time than adopting from many other countries. Buckner is seeking families who will consider being a forever family for Russian children who need homes. Read on to learn more.  http://www.buckner.org/enews/index.php/2011/10/russian-orphans-need-families/

Buckner International is a global Christian ministry dedicated to the restoration and healing of children, families and senior adults.  For more information visit http://www.buckner.org/.

Buckner Seeks Volunteers to Deliver Shoes to Orphans in Russia & Ethiopia

DALLAS, TX – Shoes for Orphan Souls is currently accepting applications for trips to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and St. Petersburg, Russia this fall. Both trips are scheduled from Oct. 6-15.

The trip to Russia will focus on delivering shoes to and bonding with children in orphanages.

Reb Wayne went to Russia with Shoes for Orphan Souls in November 2007. A native of Austin, Texas, he said the cold was a shock, but the trip was worth every minute.
“When we got to the orphanage and I was told we were their first visitors in a year. I understood my purpose and it was life altering,” Wayne said.

He has been back to Russia once since that trip and plans to go again later this year. He has kept in touch with several people from his original mission trip team, and said that besides those friendships, the biggest blessing has been working to raise funds to sponsor two young boys he met at one of the orphanages he visited.

Travelers to Ethiopia can expect much warmer climates.

The Ethiopia trip involves spending time with children in the communities, distributing shoes and putting on a Vacation Bible School.

Leona Wynne went on the first Buckner mission trip to Ethiopia in November 2009. She said she was struck by the beauty of the country and the contentedness of the people.

“When we arrived at the school where we would be working with 200 young children, they were all in a huge circle singing a song of welcome,” Wynne said. “Afterward the mayor of the village called Getahun, the country director for Buckner, to let him know how appreciative the people were to have us visit and share our hearts and much-needed shoes.”

“I think it’s important not only to get out of my comfort zone but to see how other cultures live and not assume I know what their experience is from what I’ve seen on the news,” Wynne said. “The first thing I noticed in Ethiopia was how happy and joy-filled they were with very little of what we’re used to.”

For more details, view the trip flyer for Russia at http://itsyourmission.com/downloads/RU11-0002.pdf and for Ethiopia at http://itsyourmission.com/downloads/ET11-0013.pdf or call
1-877-7-ORPHAN.