Welcome to the
Vigo County Online Angel Tree

Making a difference in your community…

The Salvation Army has been serving Vigo County for over 100 years.

Angel Tree serves hundreds of children every year.

Angel Trees are for online donations.

Salvation Army Angel Tree volunteers devote hundreds of hours of their time each year.


	Giving to The Salvation Army's Christmas Effort not only provides gifts for children to open, but hope for the family in knowing there is someone out there who cares.

How Angel Tree Works

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Registration for Angel Tree is found at www.saangeltree.org.

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We obtain the name of each child in the family and a list of desired Christmas gifts and then verify that the family is not receiving duplicate services from another agency.

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Angels are available for adoption online at saangeltree.com.

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Generous Donors select Angels, purchase gifts and return them to The Salvation Army at 234 S 8th St in Terre Haute.

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Upon receipt at The Salvation Army, the gifts are prepared for pickup by the families on a scheduled distribution day.

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All gifts will be available for pick up by the families on the day of distribution.

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Angels are available for adoption online at saangeltree.com.

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Generous Donors select Angels, purchase gifts and return them to The Salvation Army at 234 S 8th St in Terre Haute.

5

Upon receipt at The Salvation Army, the gifts are prepared for pickup by the families on a scheduled distribution day.

6

All gifts will be available for pick up by the families on the day of distribution.

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Upon receipt at The Salvation Army, the gifts are prepared for pickup by the families on a scheduled distribution day.

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All gifts will be available for pick up by the families on the day of distribution.

A History Of Community Involvement

Along with the familiar Red Kettles, the Angel Tree program is one of The Salvation Army's highest profile Christmas efforts. Angel Tree was created by The Salvation Army in 1979 by Majors Charles and Shirley White when they worked with a Lynchburg, Virginia shopping mall to provide clothing and toys for children at Christmas time.

The program got its name because the Whites identified the wishes of local children by writing their gift needs on Hallmark greeting cards that featured pictures of angels. They placed the cards on a Christmas tree at the mall to allow shoppers to select children to help. Thanks to the Whites, who were assigned by The Army to the Lynchburg area at the time, more than 700 children had a brighter Christmas that first year.

Three years later, when the Whites were transferred to Nashville, Tennessee, Angel Tree was launched in the Music City. WSM radio, which airs the Grand Ol' Opry, came on board that year as the first Angel Tree co-sponsor in the U.S.

Because of the on-air promotion on WSM in Nashville, as well as national publicity on CNN and the Larry King Show, news of Angel Tree spread across the country like wildfire.

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