Gift Mart - Christmas for the City

12/14/2025

The highlight of the event. Mia explaining to the newest volunteers what Gift Mart is
Disclaimer: I don’t know were she gets the impression about taxes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

12/13/2025

Gift Mart 2025
Our 10th year of blessing families in our community.
We are not able to do what with do without the support of The Downtown School with the Be like Cole Campaign, thanks to the students and their families.Your contributions offer hope and happiness to other children in our community.

12/03/2025

Gift Mart 2025 is happening! Parents want to provide for their children. Gift Mart provides an opportunity for parents to get new and like-new holiday gifts, toys, and school supplies for their children (including tweens and teens). Our goal is to serve families with dignity and respect while honoring the family’s desire for self-sufficiency.

Ways to partner with us:

1. Donate merchandise from your business/organization.

2. Donate a toy/item for any age group.

3. Make a financial contribution that can be used to meet our goals for families? We need toys, bikes, games, clothing, jewelry, and sporting equipment. We need items for all ages, from the youngest child to the oldest teen.
100% of the money collected at Gift Mart goes back into enriching the community.

4. Volunteer with us: https://volunteer.loveoutloudws.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=100432

Gift Mart will take place December 13,2025 at a local food pantry in Winston Salem NC. For information on how to help please contact the Gift Mart Team at 740-380-0230 or visit our website at www.christmasforthecity.com/giftmart.
We are grateful for your investment in our community and your support will be acknowledged at the Christmas for the City event. We look forward to partnering with you and aligning our efforts in releasing the radical love of Jesus Christ in our city as we assist our families in celebrating His birth!

Sincerely,
GIFT MART TEAM

Christmas for the City's Gift Mart provides an opportunity for parents to purchase, in a store-type setting, new and like-new toys and gifts at greatly reduced prices to give to their children (including tween and teens) as Christmas gifts.

12/14/2024

Project 💙 Linus as always support the Gift Mart families. God bless you!

12/09/2024

Collaboration is the key for success.
Grateful for all the donations received to serve the families of the food pantry. Thank you Downtown School and Winston Salem First Families for sharing love!

12/09/2024

12/03/2024

Greizy Beckles, Christie Willow Williams

While this year's Gift Mart will be different, we are always grateful to our partners like Starbucks. We are collecting new toys until 12/13/2024. Stop by the Starbucks in Clemmons, Jonestown Rd, Cloverdale Ave, Robinhood Rd, and Reynolda Rd.

12/03/2024

While this year's Gift Mart will be different, we are always grateful to our partners like Starbucks. We are collecting new toys until 12/13/2024. Stop by the Starbucks in Clemmons, Jonestown Rd, Cloverdale Ave, Robinhood Rd, and Reynolda Rd.

10/03/2024

Dear Gift Mart Partner and Families:

Due to challenges with financing and solidifying volunteers, the Gift Mart team has made the very difficult decision to move to a much smaller model for the 2024 Christmas season. This means Gift Mart will not be able to serve many of the agencies that have come to count on our event to assist their clients with creating a magical Christmas for their families.

There are many other agencies that offer assistance with toys and gifts at Christmas. Please see the list below to serve as a starting point for getting registered with them. Please do so quickly as we know spaces are limited and the needs are great.
The Salvation army Winston Salem
https://saangeltree.org/
City Lights Ministry
https://www.citylightsministry.org/


The Team hopes to reevaluate during the upcoming year, maybe make some much needed changes to our model and possibly reinvent ourselves to be able to come back stronger and much more equipped to serve families in our community.

Thank you to everyone who has had a part in making Gift Mart a success for the past years. Prayers for a blessed upcoming holiday season.

The Gift Mart Leadership Team
Christie Willow-Williams
Valerie LeGrand
Greizy Beckles

12/10/2023

Gift Mart 2023 for the books! Touching lives one family at the time! We served over 620 children.