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The Salvation Army and police are looking into the thefts of toys for the WOOD TV8/WOTV 4 Salvation Army Angel Tree Toy Drive.(Hope that the Huntington Bank has a good photo of the perp.)

Bush's Faith-based Initiative You Didn't Hear About Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004 Emerging post-holidays from the pile of stories virtually ignored by America’s media, comes the Bush version of Dickens. It seems George and Laura don’t just ask others to help faith-based groups, they pitch in themselves, as kids who’d gathered for Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree program found out on a Monday afternoon in Alexandria, Va., this past December. Prison Fellowship was founded by Chuck Colson, and its Angel Tree program makes sure children of prisoners receive presents during the holidays. The program has many volunteers, but they aren’t usually accompanied...

Emerging post-holidays from the pile of stories virtually ignored by America’s media, comes the Bush version of Dickens. It seems George and Laura don’t just ask others to help faith-based groups, they pitch in themselves, as kids who’d gathered for Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree program found out on a Monday afternoon in Alexandria, Virginia, this past December. Prison Fellowship was founded by Chuck Colson, and its Angel Tree program makes sure children of prisoners receive presents during the holidays. The program has many volunteers, but they aren’t usually accompanied by a crowd of more than 40 reporters as the President...

Claim:   In 2003, President and Mrs. Bush helped hand out Christmas presents to children of inmates. Status:   True. Example:   [Collected on the Internet, 2004] BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #040106 - 01/06/2004 At the Foot of the Cross A Story You Haven't Heard Angel Tree, our Prison Fellowship program for prisoners' children, is one of the great unheralded volunteer outreaches in America. Over the Christmas holidays these past few weeks, approximately 100,000 volunteers delivered Angel Tree gifts to more than 525,000 children of inmates. You didn't read about this in the newspapers, nor would I expect...

Angel Tree, our Prison Fellowship program for prisoners’ children, is one of the great unheralded volunteer outreaches in America. Over the Christmas holidays these past few weeks, approximately 100,000 volunteers delivered Angel Tree gifts to more than 525,000 children of inmates. You didn’t read about this in the newspapers, nor would I expect that you should. It’s not really that newsworthy that Christians help people in need. But there are two of our volunteers, who delivered forty presents, that I think you should have read about but didn’t. For reasons best known to themselves, the media ignored the fact that...

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. Back in October of this year, a bus-load of Prison Fellowship staff and volunteers went to the Fluvanna Women's Correctional Center in Virginia to help prisoners sign up their children for Angel Tree Christmas. A few of us volunteered to go into the segregation unit to meet with women who could not leave their cells. One of the inmate-moms I met was Alicia. As I knelt on the concrete floor and spoke to her through the food slot in her solid steel door -- the only way we could...

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. Like many teenage girls, Tiffany wanted books for Christmas. But there were three problems. Number one, her dad was in prison. Number two, her family was struggling financially. And number three, Tiffany had been blind since birth. The first two problems were taken care of when Tiffany's dad signed her up to receive Christmas gifts through Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree ministry. But that still left the third problem. Tiffany could read Braille, but as her mother warned Angel Tree volunteer John Miller, Braille books are "expensive and hard to...

At the age of ten, Elizabeth Avila had spent her whole life in a comfortable home with a loving family. Then, one day, Elizabeth's world fell apart. Her father, Joe Avila, was driving drunk when he hit and killed a 17-year-old girl. Joe was later arrested at home and sentenced to twelve years in prison. "One of the hardest things was that we were such a close family," Elizabeth recalls in the book SIX MILLION ANGELS. "Dad missed my cheerleading at games and competitions. And my first date. It was hardest around birthdays and holidays and especially Christmas." Her younger...