ANGELS OF LOVE was established in 1997 by Rick and Sally Cryder. Rick’s dream was to create a ministry that made stained-glass Angels that were freely given to bring encouragement, love, hope, peace, and comfort to people during difficult circumstances—whether grieving the loss of a family member or suffering from a serious illness, disability, or tragedy.
These beautiful stained-glass, gold-plated Angels take approximately three hours to make. Their beauty is matched by the generous hearts of the volunteers who donate their time, talent, and material resources to the Angels of Love Ministry.
Our ministry is very small and our funding and volunteer base is very limited, so unfortunately we can only make one angel per family. Thank you for understanding.
Presidents Call To Service Award
May 23, 2008
On July 13, 2007, many of the volunteers of Angels of Love gathered at the Orange County Sheriff's office to be presented with the President’s Call to Service Award from President George W. Bush. This award is given to volunteers who have worked in excess of 4,000 volunteer hours.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Due to the extremely limited manpower of Angels of Love and the huge economic downturn, we have had to make some difficult decisions about our ministry. We have a very limited number of angels to give, so we have had to make some boundaries as to who we are able to give an angel to.
We have decided that right now our priority will be getting angels to:
- The families of the military personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty
- The families of Law Enforcement & Fire Fighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty
- Children and adults who have cancer and other life threatening illnesses who live in California
Thank you for your understanding. This has been a very tough decision to make. Our goal has always been to grow our ministry and we would love to be able to make an angel for everyone who is hurting and sick, however we cannot do that.
Please pray for our ministry - that it will be Blessed with an exceptional amount of donations and that we will be Blessed with many new volunteers, especially those with stained glass experience - so they can help us assemble the angels.
We are very sorry for every family that we are not able to reach at this time. We always pray for everyone who receives an angel and for everyone that needs one, even if we aren't able to give them one.
May God Bless You.
Sincerely,
Rick and Sally Cryder
Angels of Love Ministry
“For He will give His Angels charge over you, to guard you in all your ways.” Psalm 91:11
We have received many letters and emails from people over the years who have either received an Angel of Love or who have worked with the Angels of Love program.
Also, click here to read some of the heartfelt letters sent to us.
"Hello, I just want to let you know how much we love the beautiful angel from you.
My son, 3years old has been fighting with Cancer since February. This has been very very difficult time for us.
We were hoping he would be cancer free by this Christmas. However, he needs Clinical Trials now after all of the treatments he has had in the past. Chemo, Stemcell transplant, Radiation and Multiple Surgeries. We will be back at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles tomorrow for treatment for more 2 weeks.
It is great to know that somebody cares for us and praying for us.
People like you, make it possible to get through this hard time.
Thank you so much!
"
Posted by Atsuko G. on Mar 30, 2009
