Angels of Love

Angels of Love needs your help !!

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”Angels of Love” relies 100% on public donations and corporate grants. We are committed to using 100% of every donation for our program to comfort terminal ill individuals, or family members who have lost a loved one.

Angels of Love

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Angels of Love are freely given and are never sold. They are created to bring encouragement, love, hope, peace, and comfort to people in difficult circumstances - whether grieving the loss of a family member or suffering from a serious illness, disability, or tragedy.

These artistic, stained glass Angels take aproximately two hours to make and are encased in 24-karat gold. Over 10,000 angels have been given to hurting people since 1997.

Their beauty is matched by the golden hearts of the volunteers who make these Angels possible by donating time, talent, and material resources to the Angels of Love Ministry. What a beautiful way to represent God's love?

Our Vision

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Our Vision is to expand our community volunteer base to make more Angels so that we may touch as many lives as possible.

Starting in 2006 we began making Angels for families of every fallen law enforcement officer and firefighter in the nation who lost their lives in the line of duty.

We also want to expand our programs in the state, federal and private prisons where the inmates are serving long terms for non-violent offenses, but are willing to give something back to the community.

Angel Volunteers

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Angels of Love is solely run by volunteers. People freely and lovingly give of their time to crafting the angels, each with a specific person in mind.

Many hours of care and effort are put into these angels. Without these loving, caring people, there would be no Angels. A great heartfelt thank you goes out to all who are a part of this organization.

We encourage anyone who would like to spend time helping in this program to contact the Angels of Love. We are more than willing to spend time training volunteers in the craft of stained glass making.

If you'd like to be a volunteer, please contact us at AngelsofLove7@aol.com.

Angels of Honor

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Rick Cryder, the founder of Angels of Love, travels to the Orange County jail system 2 – 3 days a week and teaches a class of non-violent inmate volunteers to make stained glass art for FREE. The Non violent detainees from the jail or from a local juvenile facility enthusiastically make the Angels that bring hope and inspiration to the community. They look forward to seeing Rick on a regular basic.

Over the years, Rick has donated thousands of Angels to families who have experienced tragedies in their lives. This has included families of the military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the VA “Tech Tragedy, 9/11 terrorist attacks, Columbine and other school shootings, Oklahoma City bombing, and other world events. He has made angels for the family of each fallen law enforcement officer and fire fighter in the State of California, along with many others in our nation. He has given angels to the families of every law officer in Orange County who was killed in the line of duty since 1912.

Rick also donates many angels to the families of children at Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) and St. Joseph Hospital of Orange among others. He is also known for his Christmas tradition, where He goes to many local hospitals to give out angels to the patients who are in the hospital and not able to go home for the holiday.

Rick spends every waking hour making angels or distributing them in person or by mail to brighten someone else’s day.

This entire organization is run without pay. They do not take any of the donations for themselves. The donations they do receive go strictly for supplies to make and distribute the angels. Funding for the Angels of Love comes from private and corporate donations. NO money is used to promote any religion or church.

If you would like to donate to the Angels of Love, please contact Rick Cryder at 714-744-3999.
Angels of Love is a 501 © (3) non –profit organization. All donations are tax deductible.

Awards and Honors

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In April 2005, Angels of Love was honored in Washington, DC with the National Acts of Caring Award from the National Association of Counties. Rick Cryder was also recognized as a “Volunteer of the Year” for 2004 for the County of Orange for his volunteer work at the Musick Jail and Joplin Juvenile Facility.

In October 2005, Angels of Love was awarded the “Heroes with heart” award by the Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) of Orange County, Ca.
On January 10, 2006, Angels of Love received the Daily Points of Light Award #3113 from President Bush.

On July 13, 2007, many of the volunteers of Angels of Love received the President’s Call to Service Award from President George W. Bush for their volunteerism in working in excess of 4,000 volunteer hours.