Supporting Families battling Childhood Cancer and Life threatening blood disorders

Sharing God's Love with families battling childhood cancer and /life-threatening blood disorders In the Texas Panhandle region "Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you, your right hand upholds me" Psalms 63:7-8 "Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ" Galatians 6:2 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves" Philippians 2:3

About Us

How we help in all the ways

We are a Christian based organization and with Gods guidance we help childhood cancer families during a very difficult time. In 2003, we started as a small support group under a different name. It was realized then that for these families time was precious. When they were not in the hospital, their priority was trying to maintain normal lives. Our founder, a pediatric nurse who was also the mother of a child with leukemia, discovered that these families often need money for extra expenses incurred as a result of treatment. Therefore we decided to take a different approach to the term "support group" and started on a new path and began fundraising in 2006 with our first gargage sale that made us $2000 a year until 2010 when we were able to move to a better location and our funds increased to $4,000 to $5,000 a year in sales. God continued to lead us on His path and things really changed when we had our first Golf tournament in 2013 and things just kept going up from there. God lead more people to help us and helped us increase our ability to help families beyond just gas and groceries as we first intended.

We did not become a nonprofit organization until 2008, changing our name to Panhandle Angels Foundation and then also received our 501(c)3 status. We originally called ourselves Parents Against Childhood Cancer in 2006 as a support group not having yet the knowledge that name was already taken.

All of the money that we raise goes directly to our families. Our organization is run by volunteers only. This helps keep our administrative costs low. We depend on word of mouth to avoid the cost of advertisement. Our only bills are this website managed by us and our po box.

How we help our families:

groceries
rent/house payment up to twice a year (but there are special exceptions)
gas
utilities
some medical
medications
out of town travel assistance
and unforseen expenses
car assistance
Scholarships to Cancer Survivors for first semester of College treated in the Panhandle

We also partner with Texas Tech and other organizations to put on a Christmas party. Our families are invited for lunch, and Santa Claus bestows presents upon each cancer child as well as all of their brothers and sisters (the parents tell us their wish). The families are entertained by a group of volunteers based on a new theme each year while they spend an afternoon just enjoying each other and forgetting about their illnesses for a brief time. It is such a blessing to be able to see these children interacting with each other like any normal group of children, with excitement and laughter, and to see their parents relaxing and smiling.

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