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Posted April 4, 2017
ANGEL TREE PROMOTIONAL TOOLS
Prison Fellowship Angel Tree® equips churches to strengthen relationships between incarcerated parents and their children and support the families of prisoners year-round. Angel Tree provides an opportunity for local congregations to extend the hope of the Gospel and enfold Angel Tree families into church life through delivering Christmas gifts on behalf of incarcerated parents, sending kids to summer camp, facilitating one-day sports camps, and more.
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Posted March 16, 2017
Beau is an Angel Tree Camping® volunteer who spent four years stationed in Hawaii for the military. For three of those years he served as a mentor at Camp Agape, a summer camp founded as a ministry to prisoners' children. Beau has since taken the model of Camp Agape to start a camp in Arkansas. We asked him to share his experiences with us.
Posted March 13, 2017
Camp can be the highlight of a child's summer. Spending time in the great outdoors, playing games, and making crafts—the memories made at camp often last for a lifetime.
A week at camp is a chance for children with incarcerated parents to change their life story.
Posted February 15, 2017
"My father was a schoolteacher," Brian recalls. "We had a home, dogs and a cat, a pool. Everything but a white picket fence ... and a relationship with Jesus."
Brian's parents occasionally took him and his sisters to church. They didn't attend often, but it was enough to awaken a hunger in Brian's heart.
A BROKEN HOME
One night, when Brian was just 12 years old, the unthinkable happened.
Brian's mother came home at 2 a.m. His father, who
Posted January 16, 2017
Prison Fellowship® did something new in 2016 for Angel Tree®. We partnered with Christian media and publishing company Zondervan to offer Angel Tree families free Bibles in either English or Spanish.
"What better way to deliver the Gospel message than to put a Bible in the home?" asks James Ackerman, Prison Fellowship's president and chief executive officer, in this week's Insider.
Prison Fellowship and Zonderkidz, an imprint of Zondervan, have offered free Adventure Bible to over 145,000
Posted January 11, 2017
You did it! In 2016, nearly 300,000 children with incarcerated parents received Christmas gifts and the Gospel message thanks to your support and contributions.
In this week's Insider, Prison Fellowship® CEO James Ackerman thanks all of our Angel Tree® coordinators, volunteers, and donors for the incredible devotion they have shown these children. If that's you, thank you!
Ackerman also shares an email he received from a former Angel Tree child who now serves as an Angel Tree
Posted December 22, 2016
The first part of this story appeared here.
The weather threatened to cancel the party. Temperatures hovered below freezing, the roads a mess the evening before. At 7 in the morning, we weren't even sure church would proceed as normal. But we moved forward with our plans, hoping to welcome more than 30 Angel Tree kids and their families that afternoon.
At noon, the volunteers began arriving, laden with Christmas cookies and beautifully wrapped presents for those
Posted December 20, 2016
2,500 gifts were handed out at an Angel Tree® Christmas party in Tennessee this past Saturday.
The New Vision Baptist Church in Murfreesboro hosted a special Christmas party for prisoners and their families. Incarcerated parents were transported to the church to spend the evening with their children.
Photo Credit: Ben White
“The reason why we do this is because I want to give hope. That’s the message of Christmas, hope for these kids,” Pastor John Sturgeon explained to
Posted December 19, 2016
For one family, Angel Tree is a treasured—but sometimes heartbreaking—holiday tradition.
As the holidays approach, most children’s thoughts turn to gifts. As an adult, I am of course thinking about this Advent season, and the birth of Jesus. In all honesty, though, my thoughts are also turn to having our grown children home with us, what activities I should plan, holiday baking traditions, meal planning, how much can we fit in the course of a week?
But
Posted December 12, 2016
As Pastor Tommy Smith, Jr. looked around at the Palma Ceia Baptist Church Christmas party for Angel Tree® kids and their families, he was struck by the diversity of the partygoers.
"This was a real cross-section of people," he says, "and it really brought home the fundamental nature of the Church’s mission."
That mission, Smith explains, is to share the love of God with everyone.
"To see so many people making a difference in the lives of those
Posted December 6, 2016
James Ackerman is the CEO of Prison Fellowship® and a longtime Angel Tree® volunteer. The following story was originally published for Jubilee®, and is reprinted here with permission.
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Posted December 2, 2016
Teshauna experienced the impact that Angel Tree® has on families with incarcerated parents firsthand. Her father was in prison, and the experience was difficult for Teshauna and her family. But Angel Tree stepped in and helped.
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Posted November 29, 2016
For the bulk of the past 10 years, I’ve been on one side of Angel Tree®. As a writer for Prison Fellowship® on a national level, I get to hear and write about all of the amazing things that happen during December and beyond, as children and incarcerated parents around the country reconnect through gifts purchased and delivered by volunteers.
But last year, I crossed over the line to the other side—as an Angel Tree coordinator
Posted November 28, 2016
As Christmas approached this year, the Welsh family began praying for a way to better serve others in their community. It will be the first Christmas without their patriarch, Ed Welsh, who passed away last February. Knowing the holidays would be difficult without Ed, the family decided that helping others might make the grief-filled time easier.
For many years, Ed served in prison ministry. Ed had spent time in prison, so he was “able to speak
Posted November 24, 2016
Happy Thanksgiving from Prison Fellowship®! We’ve pulled one of our favorite stories out of the archives for you today. This is the story of Leah. Around Thanksgiving last year, Leah’s father Joey was released from prison. Check out what she did out of thankfulness for the love Angel Tree® volunteers showed her during her dad’s incarceration