LOCAL TOPICS ON TV Sunday programs

“Community Connection” (6:30 a.m. Sunday, WFMJ-TV 21; and 7 p.m. Wednesday on Time Warner Cable channel 15 in Trumbull County): Host Madonna Chism Pinkard interviews Mary Kay Beard, founder of Angel Tree Ministries, a program designed to provide gifts to children of incarcerated parents. Beard, who was on the FBI Most Wanted list for several years, partnered with Prison Fellowship after being paroled. She now travels across the country ministering to families of the incarcerated and promoting her book, “The Rogue Angel.”

Members of Prison Fellowship Ministries, Free Indeed and the Forgotten People also discuss the challenges of incarcerated parents in providing holiday options for their children.