My son has a friend in his friend group at school that lived with his aunt and her boyfriend. Last holiday season, his aunt passed away and everyone had to move out. He ended up moving in with the aunt’s boyfriend and had to get a job to help pay the rent and bills. Fast forward to now, I was talking to my kids about finding someone to give the Angels on the Streets envelope […]

My $100.00 was given to a mother by the name of Lynne, who asked me for a ride to the St Vincent De Paul location where she was picking up a food box and returning her application for her kids to be on the list to get a Christmas present. She was definitely all over the place and in panic that her application would be denied because she did not have a ride to get […]

My husband and I went to vote, I saw a family go into a second-hand store.  When we finished voting and were leaving I asked my husband if he saw the family going into the store and that I should have given them the money.  He asked if I wanted to go back and I said yes.  I walked in, saw the family, the father was trying to comfort the children while the mom was […]

This year I decided I want to focus on a family with small children. I was grocery shopping over the weekend and observed a family in the store with two small boys. I overheard the children asking for various items and the parents telling them “not this time”. I decided this was the family… I approached them and handed them the envelope and told them  “Merry Christmas from Angels on the Street”.  They thanked me but did not […]

There is a store in Moriarty that has a restaurant attached to it.  Typically, the restaurant does not open until 3:30 in the afternoon.  There were several of us that wanted to go to the store early on Black Friday as the owner had received some new shipments of product that we wanted to look at and asked the owner if they could open up early.  The individual that accomodated this request was off on […]