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Repairing Relationships: How Angel Tree Comforted a Hurting Family

Posted July 18, 2019
Four-year-old Kassey didn't understand why her daddy was leaving her behind. Could Angel Tree® help a hurting family during this time of separation? Four-year-old Kassey was confused. She kept hearing about "prison" and "incarceration," but she didn't know what the words meant. She soon learned that, in her case, it meant that she wouldn't see her father regularly for several years. Growing up with an absent parent is incredibly painful for a child, especially when that parent is

Saving Christmas: Blue Ridge Fellowship Steps Up After Angel Tree Presents Stolen

Posted July 16, 2019
Strangers stole their Angel Tree® gifts two days before the Christmas party, but Ruby and her fellow Blue Ridge Fellowship volunteers discovered there was one thing that couldn't be taken away. The last thing Angel Tree coordinator Ruby Payne expected was a robbery. Two days before last December's Angel Tree event, Robin and her volunteers arrived at Blue Ridge Fellowship in Woodlawn, Virginia, party decorations in hand. They were there to move about 80 gifts from storage

Doing Time as a Family: Why Prison Fellowship Ministers to Angel Tree Families

Posted July 11, 2019
Children of prisoners are some of America's most at-risk kids. Will you help give them hope for a brighter future? The second time her mother was incarcerated, Tatianna was still a little girl, her feet dangling as she sat in the courtroom. She didn't really understand what was happening, but she still remembers how devastated she felt, hearing the judge sentence her mother to "one hundred and something months." She could hardly wrap her mind around

Jean’s Gift: How Angel Tree Brought a Crime Victim and a Family Together

Posted July 10, 2019
A thief sneaked into Jean's house and stole her peace of mind. When God asked her to bless his family, could she do what felt impossible? When Jean Huffman was a 16-year-old girl living in northeast Alabama, Ellis Whigham, the love of her life, slipped a ring on her finger. Ellis told Jean that he loved her and wanted to marry her. They thought about driving over the state line into Georgia, where no one would

Hope Delivered: How Angel Tree Has Been a Light in Trisha’s Darkness

Posted July 9, 2019
Her father's drug use wreaked havoc on her family life, but a glimmer of hope arrived through Angel Tree. Trisha was in third grade the first time her dad went to prison. He was addicted to drugs and had been making drugs in the family basement before being arrested. Her father's addicition resulted in erratic and dangerous behaviors. He would lock Trisha and her siblings out of her house, and she would have to take care of

What Is Angel Tree Camping?

Posted July 2, 2019
WHAT IS ANGEL TREE CAMPING? Angel Tree starts with a gift at Christmas, but it doesn't end in December. by Emily Andrews Right now, thousands of youth across America are packing their bags for childhood's most basic rite of summer—a week away at camp. Through Angel Tree Camping®, Prison Fellowship® is making camp possible for children with incarcerated parents. From rope swings and ziplines to horseback riding and swimming, a week with Angel Tree Camping is a chance for

LA Rams Hosts Angel Tree to Change Children’s Lives

Posted June 12, 2019
Players and coaches host an unforgettable day for kids . To Joe Avila, the national director of event and sports clinic at Prison Fellowship®, the children playing alongside burly football players represent hope for a better future. "I call them my children of promise," he says. "We're changing lives here. I really, really believe that." At their training facility at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California, the Los Angeles Rams hosted an Angel Tree Sports Clinic™

REGISTRACION DE ANGEL TREE PARA IGLESIA

Posted April 26, 2019
2023 Registración de Navidad para Angel Tree ¿A su iglesia, grupo u organización les encantaría compartir el Evangelio? ¿Tienes una preocupación especial por familias y personas vulnerables? Regístrese hoy para Angel Tree en Navidad. Le ayudaremos a volver a conectar a familias heridas y compartir las Buenas Nueva de Jesucristo, el regalo mayor de Navidad, con los niños de padres encarcelados que viven en su área. Su simple acto de amor dará alegría a las familias

Angel Tree Camping Radio

Posted April 12, 2019

Angel Tree Camping – 2020

Posted April 10, 2019

Angel Tree Application for Celebrate Recovery Groups

Posted April 3, 2019
ANGEL TREE AND CELEBRATE RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP In and out of prison, God is making all things new. Partnering in this renewal, Prison Fellowship® works with Celebrate Recovery (CR), a biblically based program that guides men and women in overcoming hurts, habits, and hang-ups. CR promotes Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree® program through CR chapters at churches and groups nationwide, meeting prisoners' families where they are, with the love of Christ. Every Christmas, participating CR chapters deliver Angel

How Angel Tree Brought Healing to Anastasia’s Family

Posted February 11, 2019
Angel Tree brought healing to Anastasia's family and gave her a chance to love her two young children, even while behind bars. Anastasia will never forget seeing her little girl Angel burst into the prison visitation room. "Mommy, you got me this! It's amazing," Angel said, clutching the shirt Anastasia gave her for Christmas through Angel Tree®. Anastasia knew how her daughter felt. Her dad and stepfather were always bouncing in and out of prison. She

Angel Tree Every Day – 2019

Posted January 29, 2019

Thanks to You, Angel Tree 2018 Was a Huge Success!

Posted January 9, 2019
More than 290,000 children across the country experienced hope at Christmas! In December 2018, more than 290,000 children received Christmas gifts from their incarcerated parents through the Prison Fellowship® Angel Tree® program. Thank you! "You made the 2018 Angel Tree outreach a huge success!" says James J. Ackerman, president and chief executive officer of Prison Fellowship. "Your response to Angel Tree this year was simply humbling. My wife Martha and I have been Angel Tree Christmas participants

God with Us: An Angel Tree Christmas Story from Prison Fellowship

Posted December 25, 2018
'The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means “God with us”).' Matthew 1:23, NIV It would be Vianca, Bobby, and Vivian's first Christmas without their father. He was incarcerated, and the family was struggling with his absence. The three siblings had never been separated from their father before, and they missed him terribly. Their mother Rocio had once been a stay-at-home mom, but her husband's conviction forced her to care