Following our week of prayer: Faith in Action
One of the ways Spring Branch helps children in the Houston Area is through the Angel Tree Project.
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. With other churches, we collect Christmas gifts and give them to children at the request of and on behalf of the child’s incarcerated parent. This ministry 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. Here at Spring Branch, we assist children and youth so that they will have an opportunity to go to summer camp at places like Cho-Yeh.
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.
Look for the Angel Tree tags at our church in December, and consider standing in the gap for these families.
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