Gifts for Children of Incarcerated Parents
This is our 4th year of participating with Angel Tree and providing gifts for local children.
Angel Tree is a ministry of Prison Fellowship that helps churches connect with children whose parents are incarcerated and unable to provide Christmas gifts for their children. There are over 1.5 mission children in America who have a parent in prison and Angel Tree helps to deliver a gift and a personal message to each of those children on behalf of their parents. When volunteers deliver the gifts they also provide a Bible and they can pray with the child receiving the gift. This ministry also opens the doors for churches to build relationships with families in their community in hopes of staying connected throughout the year.
There are lots of ways to participate in Angel Tree. Read the descriptions below for the teams that you can be a part of in addition to picking up a tag and buying gifts.
There are 5 bonus ways that you can participate in Angel Tree.
In addition to taking a tag from the tree and shopping for a child, there are five different teams that will be involved with making Angel Tree happen. Prayerfully consider which team(s) are the right fit for you and then fill out the form linked above and we will contact you with more information.
Contacting Angel Tree Families (10 people)
This team will contact the families to talk with caregivers about gift ideas and to confirm names of children, current address etc.
Promoting Angel Tree to our Calvary Family ( 8 people)
Month of November
This team will help promote Angel Tree to the church, set up the table in the lobby on Nov 10 and help run the table where people will pick up name tags for children to purchase gifts for.
Collection & Wrapping Team (12 people)
This team will make sure that all of the gifts get brought into the church and will check the gifts to make sure that they are appropriate and fit the request of the child. They will wrap all of the gifts, make cards with the messages from their parent, and then get the gifts sorted by families and ready for delivery with the family's information and address. Wrapping times: Wednesday, December 4th from 10 am - 1 pm and 6 - 8:30 pm. If there are still gifts to wrap we will do that on Thursday.
Delivery Team (30 people)
These volunteers will deliver gifts to the family's homes or work out for the family to pick up their gifts at Calvary between December 11 - 18. Teams of 2-3 people will make deliveries together. We will provide instructions on how to connect with the families when you drop off the gifts. This team may plan some special things like providing homemade cookies to families at delivery and pick up.
Prayer Team (unlimited)
The team will receive a list of the first names of every child that we are purchasing gifts for so that they can pray specifically for them and their families.
NOTE: You don't need to sign up to purchase gifts and clothing for children. There will be a display in the lobby on Sunday, November 10 and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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