Buckner honors Bleakley, Calabria, Standard
___DALLAS--More than 420 friends and supporters helped Buckner Baptist Benevolences celebrate 123 years of ministry Jan. 25 as the organization recognized three honorees with the first R.C. Buckner Founder's Awards.
___President Ken Hall presented the awards to David Bleakley of Beaumont, Meriam Calabria of Dallas and Baptist Standard Editor Marv Knox.
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BUCKNER President Ken Hall congratulates award recipients Mariam Calabria, David Bleakley and Baptist Standard Editor Marv Knox.
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___Bleakley received the R.C. Buckner Award for Dedicated Service. A former resident of Buckner Orphans Home, he serves as a mentor for children who live at Buckner Children's Village in Beaumont. He is known as "Daddy Dave" throughout Southeast Texas, where he shares his testimony in churches and with civic organizations.
___Calabria received the R.C. Buckner Award for Philanthropist of the Year. Along with providing funding for the Dr. J.C. and Meriam Calabria Community Center at Buckner Children's Home in Dallas, she also supports Buckner through a trust fund designed to benefit Buckner in the future.
___Knox received the R.C. Buckner Founder's Award for Outstanding Media Contributions to Family Values on behalf of the Baptist Standard. In presenting the award, Hall noted the close relationship between Buckner and the Standard in informing Texas Baptists about the various ministries of Baptist agencies.
___Diana Garland, professor of social work and director of the Center for Family and Community Ministries at Baylor University, delivered the annual Founder's Day address.
___Recalling the risk taken by Hebrew midwives Shiphrah and Puah in the book of Exodus, Garland said those who have led Buckner through the decades provided examples of modern "Shiphrahs and Puahs" in the face of today's "Pharaohs."
___"Buckner Baptist Benevolences is leading congregations to be this generation's Shiphrah and Puah, confronting the Pharaohs of today bent on destroying children--poverty, violence and hopelessness," Garland said.
___"When we think of the needs of the children of Russia and Amarillo, of Romania and Fort Worth, of Afghanistan and the barrios of the borderlands, we are overwhelmed. I imagine Shiphrah and Puah must have been overwhelmed, too, when they were all that stood between a genocidal ruler and innocent babies.
___"But what if everyone in this room ... determined to make God's order their order, to put the smallest first, to take account of the children, even when it brings us face to face with the Pharaohs of our world?"
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