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
2 users commented in " Does Prison Fellowship Give Christmas Gifts To Crime Victims’ Children? "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackPrison fellowship helps children connect with parents incarcarated. That is their mission. They used to arrange for our parish to house the families during the holiday, so that the parents in rural state and federal prisons far from their home in the city. could have a long visit.
Presumably, there are “victims groups” that work with the victims of crime.
There is a need for both, and broadening the mission statement might not be wise by either group.
How does it prove that a convict was thinking of their child when someone else provides the gift. That is non-sensical. Sorry for the child really I am…I don’t think any criminal should give a gift to their child when they have taken a parent away from another child.
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