Does Prison Fellowship Give Christmas Gifts To Crime Victims' Children?

[FMeekins]

The annual Prison Fellowship Angel Tree direct fundraising letter has arrived in the mailboxes of Christians across the nation.

On a positive note, the ministry didn't role out the organization's usual sob story letter supposedly written by a convict, incarcerated for a sentence of about nine years, asking for a handout for his daughter. 

I guess if they had continued repeatedly sending the same plea as they have done year after year since at least 2005, the discerning would have realized it was nearly time for this deadbeat to be released.

Thing is, this year's appeal still left much to be desired.

One woman is quoted as saying, "It was hard to see...him [her father] in prison...Angel Tree just showed us that he was thinking about us while he was there."

Perhaps all well and good.  But what is Angel Tree doing for the children of victims no longer able to let their children know that they are thinking about them thanks to a number of the very same convicts Prison Fellowship no doubt depicts as being put behind bars by an inequitable criminal justice system rather than by felonious misdeeds?

by Frederick Meekins

[worcesteradam]

exactly

[America2]

Pretty much, alot of these works done by "ministries" during this time of season are scams, at least to some extent - for example, Franklin Graham(the son of Billy, that is) does something through his Samaritans Purse to get gifts et al to the poor and starving in Africa. If anything, what's disappointing about all this is that not once during his promo video I saw in church a month ago said ANYTHING about spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. So who knows the real agenda behind all this?(Plus the gifts our church sent to this was sent via one of the big churches in the city, which happens to be a member church of Bill Hybels Willow Creek Association, who, like CFR Rick Warren, has been influential in this Emergent Church false teaching over the last decade)

And there's former Nixon-aide/Watergate conspirerer Chuck Colson and his "evangelical prison ministries" - this man has an outward appearance of being a Protestant, but at the same time apromotes Roman Catholicism, which pretty much proves he's (still) in bed with the globalists since his days with Nixon.

Anyhow, no surprise this particular prison ministry is a potential scam.

[Satyagraha]

I'm not familiar with Angel Tree - so not sure of their bona fides.

But I do know that there is a burgeoning prison population; many of them drug addicts (thanks to the documented CIA imports of heroin and other drugs from Afghanistan and South America; (Afghanistan now showing bumper crops thanks to US Military guarding the poppy fields)... so we have lots of incarcerated people, many with children, and most unable to afford gifts for their kids.

If Angel Tree is legitimate, and is focused on helping these folks to give gifts to their kids, then I am all for it.

[freedom_commonsense]

Well the church I'm working with shelters a number of homeless people during Christmas, and I can vouch for their legitimacy because I was also there last year. It's just a shame the director of the group still pockets an obscene salary while we struggle to get enough blankets for everyone...