The Official Soul Patrol.com and The Taylor Hicks Community have teamed up with the Birmingham Salvation Amy to operate our own online Angel Tree this year.
Last year, you helped TheOfficialSoulPatrol.com and The Taylor Hicks Community provide a much needed Christmas to 10 Birmingham area children with over $1,000 in donations and gifts. Because of you, those Angels had presents waiting for them to open Christmas morning.
We are once again seeking your help in providing a much needed Christmas for another group of Birmingham area children. Our 2008 Angel Tree is open and our Angels are waiting for you to adopt them.
Our Angel Tree works just like the ones you find in the mall each year, except ours will be done completely online and the gifts you buy will have to be boxed up and mailed back to the Birmingham Salvation Army (there is also another way to participate if you cannot get out to do your own shopping and mailing, see that information below).
How does a child become an Angel (per the Birmingham Salvation Army list)?
- Families go through a screening and registration process as well as referrals from other agencies.
- Each family must provide proof of meeting minimum poverty guidelines.
- Parents are required to provide specific proof of each child’s age and identification.
- Foster children automatically qualify for this program since they have been removed from their homes.
If you are interested in adopting one of our Angels, visit our 2008 Angel Tree, send an e-mail to jatterb@theofficialsoulpatrol.com. Include your real name, your TOSP or TTHC member name (if you are a member), and the name and App # of the Angel you would like to adopt. Please include a second and third Angel choice in case your first choice has already been adopted.
For those who prefer, you can make a cash or credit card donation through Paypal using the link below to a fund that will be used exclusively for this project.
All money donated will first be used to make purchases for any remaining Angels on our Angel Tree. Any leftover monetary donations will be used to adopt additional Angels from one of the Birmingham Salvation Army’s other Angel Trees.