Prison Fellowship & Angel Tree
Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree ministry brings hope to almost 50,000 children of prisoners in Texas. Children of prisoners are, the most at-risk young people in America. Christmas gifts initiated by and delivered on behalf of the child’s incarcerated parent helps break down walls and strengthen family ties. Through Angel Tree, these children feel a parent’s love, despite the absence of that parent.
Angel Tree reaches out to the children of inmates and their families with the love of Christ. It seeks to transform the lives of these families. Angel Tree provides an opportunity to connect and help them at Christmas and then to continue through a variety of year-round opportunities. Ultimately Angel Tree stands in the gap for these broken families and works to break the cycle of crime in our communities.
Prison Fellowship is a non-profit, volunteer-reliant organization whose mission is to exhort, equip, and assist the Church in its ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and their families and in its promotion of biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system. Founded in 1976 by Chuck Colson, former Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon, the ministry is devoted to sharing hope with imprisoned men and women and their families. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., Prison Fellowship is now the largest prison outreach and criminal justice organization in the world, operating in all 50 states and in 105 countries.
