I realized that I live a pretty sheltered life while contemplating who I might give the Angels $100 gift to…not that I haven’t experienced cold, hungry, homeless days earlier in my life. I thought about those days and where I would have appreciated encountering someone with a generous gift and open heart. I went to the local food bank and watched the long line of people filter out of the doors with their seemingly meager […]

This young lady’s plan was to put herself through school, obtain her degree, get married, and have a beautiful family. She accomplished the first three with flying colors. Unfortunately, life did not turn out as she planned. One week before her wedding she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, and will suddenly making multiple trips to Houston for chemotherapy. She will be needing a stem cell transplant when she goes into remission. While […]

When the opportunity for our Angels on the Streets program came up again this year my boyfriend had somebody in mind who had the need and deserved all the help he could get. My boyfriend has an employee who recently moved his kids away from a bad home environment. After signing a lease and paying rent and deposit he has only been able to provide necessities. They have been getting by with almost no furniture, […]

One of my friends works for Risen Savior church. She told me about a single mom who had come in struggling so hard she couldn’t even pay her rent or buy clothes for her 3 children as Christmas gifts. I gave her the $100 toward the clothes and the church helped her pay her rent.

I know this woman whose selflessness shines through daily. She moved back to Albuquerque a couple years ago hoping to help her troubled teenage son. This was a familiar ground for her and she had friends and family here who were willing to lend a hand. Albuquerque turned out to be a good move for her son because he found a girlfriend who had two young boys. As time went by her son told her she was going […]