Branch of Love 2025 Delivered
Branch of Love Thanks You!
As part of the Branch of Love Program for Christmas of 2025, Manassas Baptist Church (MBC) teamed up with several other local churches to make Christmas brighter for 203 children of inmates incarcerated at the Prince William – Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center (ADC). MBC provided gifts for 34 of these children. All were delivered by 12/21/2025.
Besides the gifts that you provided, both children and guardians received handmade hats from the gifted people of Crafts for Christ. Thank you, Ellen Miller, Sharon Potter, Bill Miller, and Elysa Earle. Hand-made frogs, pigs, and Teddy Bears provided by members of the KFC Class and aprons provided by Donna Waller.
Besides the gifts that you provided, both children and guardians received handmade hats from the gifted people of Crafts for Christ. Thank you, Ellen Miller, Sharon Potter, Bill Miller, and Elysa Earle. Hand-made frogs, pigs, and Teddy Bears provided by members of the KFC Class and aprons provided by Donna Waller.
We’d also like to thank Ernie Newland and his UPS store, located across from the hospital, for his help in the shipping of gifts to 13 children and their 5 guardians.
Thanks to Maritza Neuman for her translation and delivery assistance to the families that spoke Spanish.
Thanks also to those who helped financially to fund some of the Bibles, books, gifts, and shipping.
Thanks to Maritza Neuman for her translation and delivery assistance to the families that spoke Spanish.
Thanks also to those who helped financially to fund some of the Bibles, books, gifts, and shipping.
Besides the children’s gifts, each guardian received an NIV Study Bible (NVI for Spanish-speaking), a Walmart gift card, treats, and Christian DVDs and/or Christian Books that could be shared with the children. The picture to the right shows these gifts.
Most guardians were typically not expecting to raise these children (especially alone), and the children were typically not expecting to have their parent(s) with them for Christmas. Some children were blessed to have loving grandparents and other relatives who stepped up to nurture another generation. You made Christmas brighter for these children who did nothing to cause the change in their circumstances.
Most guardians were typically not expecting to raise these children (especially alone), and the children were typically not expecting to have their parent(s) with them for Christmas. Some children were blessed to have loving grandparents and other relatives who stepped up to nurture another generation. You made Christmas brighter for these children who did nothing to cause the change in their circumstances.
The age of this year’s children ranged from 6 months to 15 years. Twelve children lived in Manassas. The remaining 22 children lived in Aldie=1; Alexandria=5; Culpeper=2; Front Royal=2; Martinsburg, WV=4; Midland=1; Spotsylvania=2; Triangle=2; Woodbridge=3.
Thank you for all that you did to help this year!
May 2026 be full of God’s Blessings and Presence for you and yours!
Thank you for all that you did to help this year!
May 2026 be full of God’s Blessings and Presence for you and yours!
Wayne & Karen Gorsuch