Thank you for your interest in helping those in need through our Angel Tree project!

Our 2023 Angel Trees will be up and decorated at both St. Paul & Sacred Heart Churches on Saturday, November 18th.

All are invited to take an Angel (or two) from the tree, purchase the gift noted on the back of the Angel, and return the gift, with the Angel attached, by December 10th. 

The gifts will be distributed to several different organizations this year!

• A Franciscan mission initiative, organized through our friars with their associate friars in Baltimore, to provide hand-warmers and foot-warmers to the homeless.

 

• Underground New England, a grass-roots initiative dedicated to ending sex trafficking and sexual exploitation throughout Connecticut and New England. There will be ‘baby booties’ on the Angel Tree (in addition to angels). The gifts noted on the booties will be distributed to three particular women who are facing crisis pregnancies and who are receiving help from UNE. The organization will give the mothers your gifts by holding 'baby showers' for them. One of the women is carrying twins. 

 

• Boxes to Boots is a local organization that sends care packages to members of our military who are deployed overseas. Their goal is to 'bring smiles to our soldiers who cannot be home with their families for the holidays.' 

 

• The Angel Tree will also once again support local organizations such as the Friendship Center, Klingberg Family Center, Worthington Manor Retirement Center, Ledgecrest Health Care Center, and CCARC. 

ONLINE ANGEL TREE!

For those who would like to support our Angel Tree Project but find it more convenient to print an angel from home rather than take an angel from the Angel Tree in the church, there are TWO ONLINE OPTIONS:


1. BOXES TO BOOTS - GIFT CARDS. Our Angel Tree project will support the Boxes to Boots organization through the donation of Amazon Gift Cards (in addition to the wrapped gifts from the Angel Tree in church.) To support Boxes to Boots, through the purchase of Amazon Gift Cards:
 

• CLICK HERE for our printable BOXES TO BOOTS angel page! 
• Cut out the angel, purchase an Amazon gift card, and drop off both the angel and the card to one of the Angel Trees in church or to the Parish Office. (Feel free to drop in the mail slot if the office is closed.)

2. WINTER GLOVES FOR THE HOMELESS. Our Angel Tree project will also provide winter gloves to local organizations which have expressed a specific need for this item.
 

• CLICK HERE for our printable WINTER GLOVES angel page! 
• Cut out the angel, purchase winter gloves, and drop off both the angel and the gloves to one of the Angel Trees in church or to the Parish Office. 

 

 

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Should you have any questions, please contact Joan at [email protected]