Background
Because of Covid-19, our Church opted to participate in Virtual Angel Tree this year.
Lineage
- Virtual
- Virtual Path – 2020
Link
- Virtual Path – 2020
Traditional
Historically, we go the traditional route. Here is what that entails.
- We get a list of Angels
- We divvy up the list among coordinators
- Each coordinator contacts the caregivers for his or her assigned Angels
- During the contact here is what is discussed
- The upper limit for a gift is communicated by the Coordinator to the Caregiver
- For our church, we are usually around $25 to $30 for each Angel
- Each Angel
- Name
- Gender
- Age
- Desired Gift
- List of Additional Angels in the House that are under the Angel of 18
- Contact Information
- Phone Numbers
- Email Address
- Physical Address
- The Address where gifts will be delivered
- Next Steps
- Projected delivery dates
- Customarily gifts are delivered in early to mid-December
- The upper limit for a gift is communicated by the Coordinator to the Caregiver
- Angel Cards
- Once we have a firm list of Angels along with their age, gender, and desired gifts
- We prepare little Angel cards bearing same
- Angel Trees
- Angel Trees are decorated with the Angel Cards
- And, placed at strategic places in the Church hallway
- Church Congregants – Pick Angels
- Congregants
- Church Congregants pick the Angels
- Coordinator
- Co-ordinators update our internal database
- By each chosen Angel, we place the name of the congregant that chose the Angel
- The congregant contact details – Phone Number & Email Address also noted
- Co-ordinators update our internal database
- Congregants
- Church Congregants – Purchase Gifts
- The Church congregants purchase the gifts
- And, return gifts to the House of Worship
- Angel Tree Coordinators – Prepare Gifts
- Angel Tree Coordinators prepare gifts by doing the following
- Sort
- Group by family
- Bag based on family
- Fillers
- Buy additional gifts based on:-
- Angels Chosen by Congregants
- Gifts Yet Returned
- Angels yet chosen, but other members have been gifts
- Not a good look for family members to have gifts, but one or two ungifted
- Angels Chosen by Congregants
- Buy additional gifts based on:-
- Angel Tree Coordinators prepare gifts by doing the following
- Angel Tree Coordinators – Coordinate Delivery
- Pastoral request made for delivery drivers
- Delivery drivers
- List created for drivers
- Driver Names and contact details noted
- Coverage Area in terms of destination cities noted
- List created for drivers
- Angel Tree Coordinators & Delivery Drivers – Hand over gifts
- Gifts handed over to delivery drivers
- Along with the gifts the names and contact details of the caregiver for each gift is entrusted, as well
- Delivery Drivers – Gift Delivery Preparation
- Delivery drivers contact the family through the caregiver
- And, delivery time and place arranged
- Delivery Drivers – Gifts Delivered
Summary
Listed above are the steps we often undertake when we deliver Angel Tree gifts using the traditional pathway.
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