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2025 Hall is Home for Kids Christmas

Activities & Sponsorships

Hall Is Home for Kids Christmas Is in its 7th Year!!  Seven years of magical Christmases for all our Hall County Foster Children and Youth as well as some extra magic for many of the kinship care families and recently reunited families.   This year we will once again be looking for Christmas list sponsors for children ages infant to 12 years (each child provides their own list that includes four items) and then donations are requested to provide our youth, ages 13 to 21, with a $150 gift card.   Below is a link to the form to sign up as a Christmas List or Youth Gift Card Sponsor. Children’s Christmas lists are valued at $150.00 and the Youth Gift Cards are valued at $150.00.

Festival of Trees Sponsorships – On Saturday, December 6, 2025, the Hall is Home for Kids Christmas Celebration will be held at the Gainesville Civic Center from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We will also be featuring our “Festival of Trees” now in its fourth year, in conjunction with the Christmas Celebration.  The  “Festival of Trees” is extremely successful, and our children and families enjoy viewing the trees during the Christmas Celebration.  Our goal this year is to have 15 Tree Sponsors.  The Christmas trees are provided by Hall is Home, which are 6 ft lighted trees.  Sponsors are asked to commit to a $350.00 donation to Hall is Home for Kids Christmas and to provide decorations for their sponsored tree.  Signage is placed by the trees noting the sponsor’s name and/or logo.  This is a great way for businesses, churches or civic organizations to support the Hall is Home for Kids Christmas project.  At the end of the Christmas Celebration, the decorated trees are given to kinship care families or families recently reunited.  The joy this additional activity has added to the overall Christmas Celebration event for all children and families in attendance is wonderful!  Please consider becoming a tree sponsor by clicking the link below.  

Below are the links to the forms to sign up for a sponsorships and deadlines for becoming a part of our Christmas magic this year. 

 Date        Sponsorship Category     Deadline           Document Link

Sept-Nov

Child’s Christmas List Sponsor – (Valued at $150.00)

Or

Youth Gift Card – (Valued at $150.00)

 Nov 5

Child’s Christmas List or Youth Gift Card Sponsor Form –

https://form.jotform.com/252344634414150
Sept – Nov Sign up as a Festival of Trees Sponsor Nov 22

Festival of Trees Sponsorship Form

https://form.jotform.com/252135459671158

Thank you for supporting our efforts for Hall is Home for Kids Christmas 2025!

 

 

 

How to Get Involved

Please join us for our Christmas 2025 efforts.  We are asking for Christmas List and Youth Gift Card sponsors presently.  Financial donations are extremely helpful too click the Donate button to make a donation via our secure Paypal account.   Click the links above to register as a Wish List or Gift Card Sponsor.  You can also register to be a Festival of Trees sponsor by clicking the link above. 

If you have questions, please contact Hall is Home for Christmas project coordinator, Elain Ellerbe, at 225-963-2074.

About Us

. . .OUR HISTORY

Hall is Home for Kids is an initiative of the nationally recognized Refined By Fire Ministries, Inc.  Founded in 1989 by Michael and Elain Ellerbe and their daughter, Ari, the organization was incorporated in 1995 as a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization with an initial mission to provide faith-based programming in adult and juvenile correctional facilities and assisting under-resourced populations.

Hall is Home for Kids Christmas was birthed in response to the growing needs of our local child welfare community, particularly those children in the custody of the Hall County Department of Family and Children Services. In addition, Hall is Home for Kids Christmas makes it a priority to mobilize community partners to meet the needs of the local foster care community and families impacted by the child welfare system.   Under the scope of the Hall is Home for Kids Christmas initiative, employees of the Hall County Department of Family and Children Services have worked cooperatively alongside other stakeholders in the child welfare system, including judges, Court Appointed Special Advocates, attorneys, foster parents, birth families, and other local private and public partners to work cooperatively to secure resources to improve the well-being of children in foster care.

While each of these organizations and individuals have worked tirelessly for many years to ensure that all children in the custody of Hall County DFCS have an abundant and joyful Christmas, these dedicated and committed groups banded together for the inaugural activities under the umbrella of Hall is Home for Kids Christmas in 2019.  By streamlining and coordinating efforts, our foster and relative care communities will be better served in future years.

OUR GOAL
Since 2019, Hall is Home for Kids efforts have been very successful through our Hall is Home for Kids Christmas project.  Over that time Hall is Home for Kids has coordinated resources that have allowed us to provide Christmas gifts for over 3,200 foster children and youth as well as providing gift cards for caretaker families to help with Holiday meals and other needs.  Additionally, throughout the year, we have provided resources for reunified families and caretaker families.  Hall is Home hosted for the first time a celebration event in 2019 and once again in 2022, 2023, and 2024, for all foster and relative caretakers and the children in their care.   In 2025, we will once again hold the Christmas Celebration Party and provide gifts for Christmas wish lists for approximately 350 children and youth in the custody of Hall County DFCS, those in relative care served by DFCS and CASA, and many in the care of their biological parents who have worked hard to preserve and reunify their families.   We hope you will join us in reaching our goal this year by becoming either a Christmas List or Youth Gift Card Sponsor or Festival of Trees sponsor (or all three!!!).

Let’s partner together in 2025 to make Christmas this year the most magical

one for all foster children and youth in Hall County.

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