Angel Tree

The 2009 Senior Citizens Angel Tree booth will be located at Green Tree Mall just outside the JCPenneys Mall Entrance from November 13th – 24th. The “Angels & Elves” project is available again this year and will allow those adopting an Angel to meet their Angel in person to present gifts at a supervised Holiday Party. 

If you would like to participate in this very special project please visit our booth to adopt your special Angel.  If you have any questions regarding the Senior Citizens Angel Tree project please contact Earlene Bennett, Coordinator, at 948-8330 or toll-free at 1-888-948-8330.

Grandma goes into a nursing home.  She is allowed $52 a month to cover expenses: clothing, hygiene items, socks, house shoes, and snacks.  The kids come by now and again; but after awhile, visits become more and more infrequent.

Grandma wears out her robe and knit pants with a little help from the industrial laundry room. So, what should she use her $52 for this month? A new robe or pants, or the shoes she also needs?  Through the Senior Citizens Angel Tree project gifts of warm clothing, toiletries, cookies & candy are provided to nursing home residents and homebound seniors & disabled persons annually during the Holiday Season. 

For the past 20 years volunteers and the community have rallied behind the Senior Citizens Angel Tree to make sure Grandma has the necessities that she so desperately needs.  Remember those vanilla sandwich cookies Grandpa always liked?  Yep, he gets those as well.

LifeSpan Resources and their partners - the Salvation Army, the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), GreenTree Mall and an Advisory Committee work together to ensure a successful project hand in hand with numerous local businesses, churches, and civic organizations.

After adoption, some Angels require additional items for their gift so a merry band of volunteers shop for supplemental items.  The gifts are turned over to the nursing facilities to be wrapped and stored until Christmas time when they're distributed to thankful Angels.

The “Angels & Elves” project, that was piloted in 2007, allows those adopting to meet their angel in person, was expanded this year and 31 angels were adopted.

The “Corporate Angel” trophy was awarded to Mt. St. Francis Retreat Center for the second year in a row for adopting 53 angels and donating an additional $205.  A special thank you to Dr. Louise Wailus Suleiman for coordinating the project at Mt. St. Francis and Annette Roberts for her volunteer efforts.

A major project such at the Senior Citizens Angel Tree project cannot be successful without a host of wonderful volunteers such as Rita Gettelfinger, Beth Preher, Dr. Louise Wailus Suleiman, Betty Back, Mike Bennett Sr, Anna Waldkoetter, Jessica Money, and Amber Medlock.

Thank you also to the following sponsors for generously supporting the project through adoptions and/or donations:

THANKS to all of our volunteers, sponsors and Planning Committee for their support.  A special thank you to Graceland Baptist Church for donating space this year for processing gifts.  For more information, contact Earlene Bennett, Coordinator, at (812) 948-8330. 

Sponsored by:
LifeSpan Resources

GreenTree Mall

Salvation Army