What You Can Do to Help Children of Prisoners? I have always admired how much Chuck Colson and the Prison Fellowship staff poured themselves into making sure that thousands and thousands of prisoners’ children received gifts at Christmas time. Since 1982, church volunteers across the country have delivered gifts to more than 9 million children of prisoners. Here’s how Angel Tree works: When you sign your church up to volunteer, you’ll receive a list of prisoners’ children and their caregivers’ contact information. A church volunteer will contact the caregivers to confirm gift wishes. You’ll place those children’s names and their gift wishes on paper angels, hang them on a Christmas tree—an Angel Tree—that you place in your church’s lobby. Members of your congregation then choose the paper angels, buy and wrap the gift or gifts, and return them to the church. From there, a church volunteer will arrange a time to deliver the gifts and the Gospel materials provided by Angel Tree. Many churches host Angel Tree parties and invite the children and their caregivers to attend. This is the power of God working through the smallest things. All you have to do is call 1-800-55-ANGEL to get more information or to volunteer. Or you can go to their website. prisonfellowship.org/programs/angel-tree/
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:30:27 +0000
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