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    <description><![CDATA[Stories of adoption and foster care through Buckner. Check out our Weekly Updates from the Experts series for helpful resources on adoption and foster care!]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[First Person Perspective: Out of Grief into Gladness]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[By Holly Garcia “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” (James 1:2-4) Almost four years ago, my husband and I]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[One Week from Today: Prayer Vigil for Foster Children]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There are 400,000 children in foster care in the United States on any given day. These children have been neglected or abused by those closest to them &#8212; those who are supposed to love, care for and nurture them. We are holding a prayer vigil for all children in foster]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Host Families Needed for Colombian Angels]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dillon International Hosts Free Interest Meetings in Dallas May 21 and May 30 Contact: Lauri Ann Hanson Marketing &#38; Media Relations Coordinator Buckner International Phone: (214) 758-8171 DALLAS—Seven Colombian orphans will make the trip of a lifetime as they travel to Dallas for a three-week visit with American host families]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Meet Lainy!]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As part of National Foster Care Month, we would love to introduce you to a child who is currently in our care. It is important to us at Buckner for the public to know and love our children as much as we do! While the information contained in this child]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Poem from the Heart of a Foster Mother]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[May is recognized as National Foster Care Month, an opportunity to raise awareness about the urgent needs of the approximately 400,000 children and youth under the age of 18 in our country’s foster care system. In Texas alone, there are roughly 30,000 children in foster care who need loving adults]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Breaking the Cycle: Former Foster Youth Need Help, Too]]></title>
      <link>http://www.faithvillage.com/blogpost/389634f4be7a413c8c7116a6f27a38aa/breaking_the_cycle_former_foster_youth_need_help_too</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When you think of child abuse, what image comes to mind? For most people, they are the same images that come up when you type in “child abuse” into any search engine. Pictures of young children, the majority under the age of 5, appear all over the screen. It’s disheartening]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Impact of Fear]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Empowered to Connect is currently featuring a video series on their website entitled “What Every Adoptive Parent Should Know.” We’ll be sharing one of these videos each month for the next few months here on the Be A Family blog. We hope you and your family will benefit from this]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Meet Jesse!]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is our hope to occasionally use this blog to introduce you to children who are currently in our care. It is important to us at Buckner for the public to know and love these children as much as we do! While the information contained in this child profile is]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Adoption in Scripture Series to Resume June 5]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[We will be taking a break from our Adoption in Scripture blog series during April and May to focus our on topics of child abuse and foster care. The series will pick up again June 5. If you missed the first two installments, get caught up on Part I: Before]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[April: National Child Abuse Prevention Month]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Child abuse and neglect continue to be of concern each day in the United States. Today, April 4, 2013, is designated as ‘Go Blue’ Day. Everyone is encouraged to wear blue in hopes to raise awareness of child abuse. Wear your blue and help us spread the word to end]]></description>
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