In the News ... "Lubbock’s Buckner Family Hope Center Opens Its Doors"

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• A Safe Place for Struggling Families

By Jonathan Baker, Reporter
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - “It’s pretty amazing when these families find out that someone will come along and walk beside them.” Kathy McGee, senior executive director for Buckner International in West Texas, leans forward in her overstuffed armchair, in the lobby of Lubbock’s new Buckner Family Hope Center on Lubbock’s south side. McGee’s cheerful demeanor belies a seriousness behind her eyes. Beside her, Angelina Rodriguez, the new center’s director, nods in agreement. Both women are motivating forces in a powerful new initiative in south Lubbock, a center aimed at learning what struggling families truly want – then giving them the tools and skills to get there ...

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