Welcome to the
Estrella Mountain Corps Online Angel Tree

The Christmas Angel Tree has been serving families for many years at the Estrella Corps & community partners.

The Christmas Angel Tree collaborates with many distribution partners to help those in need at Christmastime.

Every child should be able to enjoy opening a Christmas gift during the holiday season.

Making a difference in your community…

The Salvation Army Angel Tree Program has been a tradition since 1979.

This collaboration reaches over 1500 families and nearly 4,000 children for Christmas assistance.

Community partnerships have formed with businesses, organizations and churches to meet the Christmas needs.

The volunteers devote many hours of their time to ensure each child has what is desired at Christmastime.

Learn how the Christmas Angel program and its generous donors help parents and children in need celebrate Christmas.


	"Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it's in your power to help them." Proverbs 3:27

How Angel Tree Works

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Social service agencies and schools refer families to The Salvation Army for help with Christmas assistance. Participants are then verified to see if the family qualifies for the program.

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The registration process receives a gift wish, a need and clothing sizes for each child that registers for assistance.

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Angel tags are printed for each individual child and distributed through local churches, businesses and organizations.

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Generous Donors select Angel families, purchase Christmas gifts, and return them to the Drop-off sites by the given deadline on each tag.

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Upon their return, the gifts are taken to the Christmas Angel Warehouse to prepare the bags for the distribution sites and picked-up by the family on their specific date, time and location.

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The bags are distributed at various family-friendly events where they come and enjoy a fun Christmas celebration created specifically for them. The families also will be picking up a pantry/holiday meal box!

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Angel tags are printed for each individual child and distributed through local churches, businesses and organizations.

4

Generous Donors select Angel families, purchase Christmas gifts, and return them to the Drop-off sites by the given deadline on each tag.

5

Upon their return, the gifts are taken to the Christmas Angel Warehouse to prepare the bags for the distribution sites and picked-up by the family on their specific date, time and location.

6

The bags are distributed at various family-friendly events where they come and enjoy a fun Christmas celebration created specifically for them. The families also will be picking up a pantry/holiday meal box!

5

Upon their return, the gifts are taken to the Christmas Angel Warehouse to prepare the bags for the distribution sites and picked-up by the family on their specific date, time and location.

6

The bags are distributed at various family-friendly events where they come and enjoy a fun Christmas celebration created specifically for them. The families also will be picking up a pantry/holiday meal box!

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.

The Christmas Angel program in partnership with the Toys & More Project has impacted the west valley for over the past 12 years. It has grown to include many social service organizations, businesses and churches, truly making it a collaborative effort that is engaged in helping and servicing the families in our local community.

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