It's All About The Foster Kids
Our Heart
at Angels in the Alley
Since 2011, our Angels in the Alley ~ Foster Kids Christmas event has provided a truly magical experience to hundreds of foster kids who desperately need an evening of nonstop fun, endless hugs and a renewed faith in humanity.
We chose to work with Koinonia Family Services because they are such an incredible organization of dedicated professionals whose sole focus is to provide a supportive family atmosphere to help rebuild these kids and prepare them for a successful future.
Along with our annual Christmas celebration, we offer transitional scholarships to youth aging out of the foster system, helping them take their first steps into adulthood with support and encouragement.
We partner directly with group homes, foster families, and at-risk youth organizations to help kids move forward in their lives. Funds to join little league, girl scouts, music lessons or karate, we want to give them the opportunity to participate & grow from the experience–whether it’s college, the military, or a new job, Lord knows they deserve every bit of support we can give.
To date we have served over 500 foster teens and raised well over $850,000!
Our goal is to support hundreds more and help change their futures.
A common theme among the foster kiddos is their absolute shock that total strangers would go out of their way to do kind things for them, without even knowing them. I see it all the time in their little faces, when we hand them their gifts and in their heartwarming, hand made thank you cards. It takes a box of tissue to get through them all…but I truly cherish each and every one of them.
I will never forget one very special young lady who came to one of our Angels in the Alley events…she touched my heart for life.
As she began opening her many gifts, she stopped midway and started sobbing. I rushed to her side to see what was wrong and she explained that this was her very first Christmas present, and she did not want it to end. She was seventeen years old and living in a group home. She went on to tell me that the mere thought of someone going out of their way to shop, wrap and deliver such a beautifully wrapped gift, just for her, was incomprehensible.
After years of neglect and not feeling worthy of love in any form, she was a wash of emotion and left that evening with a renewed faith in humanity.
