Texas Tidbits: Buckner partners with radio network

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Buckner partners with national Christian radio network. K-LOVE, a Christian radio network with an estimated 14 million weekly audience in 47 states, is working in a fund-raising partnership with Buckner International’s Shoes for Orphan Souls ministry. Throughout April, K-LOVE listeners who make a new pledge of support to the network with a $40 monthly EZ gift also will help provide a new pair of shoes to a child in need through Shoes for Orphan Souls. K-LOVE also will encourage listener involvement by hosting and participating in local shoe drives to help Buckner meet its goal of distributing more than 170,000 pairs of new shoes to children in need this year.

BCFS ministry benefits from foundation grant. The Rapier Foundation granted $50,000 to guadelupestreetcoffee400Guadalupe Street Coffee is a community development project of Baptist Child & Family Services in San Antonio.Guadalupe Street Coffee, a community development project of Baptist Child & Family Services on San Antonio’s West Side in a neighborhood where more than half of the residents live below the poverty line. The coffee shop provides a safe environment that fosters continued learning and educational opportunities for local students. Guadalupe Street Coffee provides job training to teens and leads educational activities that promote healthy, affordable nutrition and daily living for families. In six years, the project has served 10,000 school-age children and provided close to 9,000 hours of free services to at-risk youth, such as homework and financial aid assistance, job training, and lessons on nutritional eating and healthy living.

UMHB doctoral degree adds nursing track. The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is adding a leadership in nursing education track to its doctor of education degree program, beginning in June. Currently, the degree program offers two tracks for students pursuing the doctoral degree—one for educators focused on Pre-K through grade 12 education and one for higher education professionals. The addition of a third track will open up the degree program to nursing educators who wish to earn a terminal degree in their field of study. For more information about the degree program and the application process, click here or call the UMHB director of graduate admissions at (254) 295-4020 or (800) 727-8642.

 


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