Angel of Hope Project
Angel of Hope Memorial At Boys Town
There will be a dedication service on September 26, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
A Memorial Project of the Compassionate Friends - Greater Omaha Chapter
Click here for a printable copy of the Brick Order Form.
A place of Remembrance and Connection
A place of Love and Healing
A place of Peace
Families can come to find solace in the statue’s presence, and lay their grief in the outspread arms of an angel.
The statue will be funded through the sale of memorial bricks engraved with our children’s names.
An Angel with Hope in its wings.
The Christmas Box Angel Statue, or the Angel of Hope, as it is sometimes referred to, was introduced to the world in the book The Christmas Box, a worldwide bestseller and hit television movie by author Richard Paul Evans. In the book, a woman mourns the loss of her child at the base of an angel monument. Though the story is mostly fiction, the angel monument once existed but was lost in the 1984 Salt Lake City flood. A new bronze statue was commissioned by the author in response to reports that grieving parents were seeking out the angel as a place to grieve and heal. The first angel monument was dedicated in Salt Lake City, Utah, on December 6, 1994. Since this time, nearly 100 other angel monuments have been dedicated across the country and many other sites are being planned.
The Angel of Hope statue is made by Ortho and Jared Fairbanks, a father and son team. In its wing is inscribed the word HOPE. The four foot tall bronze statue of a little girl angel with arms reaching outward provides comfort to those who grieve.
The Compassionate Friends-Greater Omaha Chapter members shared a vision of a quiet place where families could go to remember their children and heal. It stands as a symbol of hope for all parents and loved ones who have experienced the death of a child, no matter what age.
The Greater Omaha Chapter’s Angel of Hope is located at Boys Town across from the Chambers Chapel.
Directions: From Dodge, exit on 137th street onto Sheehan Parkway. Turn right on Flanagan Boulevard. Turn right at the round-about. Memorial is on the right, across from Chambers Chapel..
Click here for a map to the Angel of Hope site.
angelofhope@tcfomaha.org