🎄 A Wish for Christmas🎄
Our Founding Program
A Wish for Christmas is the founding program of Blue Water Wish for Kids. Since 2013, we have connected local families facing hardship with individuals, families, businesses, schools, and organizations who want to help make Christmas meaningful for children in our community.
What began as a small, seasonal effort by one mom has grown into a trusted, community-driven program rooted in compassion, dignity, and support.
While our organization now serves families year-round, A Wish for Christmas remains at the heart of what we do.
How A Wish for Christmas Works
Families requesting Christmas assistance are screened by our team. Protecting the privacy and dignity of participating families remains an important part of the program.
A Wish for Christmas uses a combination of community adoption and direct BWWFK support to provide Christmas assistance to local children and families.
Families selected for community adoption are shared using a family number, family size, and general area rather than their names. Individuals, families, businesses, schools, and organizations can then choose a child or family to adopt and help fulfill their Christmas wishes and needs.
BWWFK also provides Christmas gifts directly to approved families using our inventory of donated new toys, gifts, clothing, donated funds and other available Christmas items.
Donations of new toys and gifts help us build our Christmas inventory ahead of the holiday season so BWWFK can provide gifts directly to more local children and families.
Christmas wish lists give supporters another way to help stock our inventory with toys, gifts, clothing, teen items, and other currently needed items.
Financial contributions allows BWWFK to purchase Christmas gifts and other needed items when donated inventory does not meet current program needs and help us provide Christmas assistance to more approved families.
By combining community adoption, donated Christmas inventory, wish-list support, and financial contributions, BWWFK can serve families in several ways throughout the Christmas season.
Building our resources ahead of time also helps us respond when an adopter is unable to fulfill a family’s Christmas needs and, most importantly, allows us to provide Christmas gifts directly to more children and reduce the number of families we must turn away because of limited resources.
Privacy & Dignity
Protecting family privacy is a core value of A Wish for Christmas. Family names and identifying information are never shared publicly. Information shared for community adoption is limited to what is necessary to help supporters choose a family while protecting the family's identity.
Identifying information is limited to those who need it to coordinate assistance, and adopters may also choose to remain anonymous.
Ways to Support A Wish for Christmas
There are many ways individuals, businesses, schools, organizations, and Community Partners can help:
Adopt a Child or Family: Help fulfill Christmas wishes for a child or family in need! Available families are posted on our Blue Water Wish for Kids Facebook page and identified by family number to protect their privacy. Don't have Facebook? No problem! Contact us at connect@bwwfk.org or 810-372-9988, and we'll help you participate.
Shop Our Amazon Wish List or Walmart Registry: Help fulfill Christmas wishes by purchasing gifts requested by the children and families we're serving! Our wish lists also include toys, clothing, winter gear, teen gifts, and other items that help BWWFK provide Christmas gifts directly to families throughout the season. (Gift list buttons below)
Donate New, Unwrapped Gifts: Help us build our Christmas inventory so BWWFK can provide gifts directly to children and families. Donations of new toys, clothing, winter gear, teen gifts, and other Christmas items are welcome!
Make a Monetary Donation: Your generosity helps BWWFK purchase Christmas gifts, fulfill unmet wishes, provide gifts for families who haven't been adopted, and respond to unexpected or last-minute needs throughout the Christmas season.
Stay Connected & Help Make Christmas Wishes Come True!
A Wish for Christmas 2026 is officially underway!
Throughout the Christmas season, we'll continue sharing family adoption opportunities, Christmas wish lists, current donation needs, and ways our community can help bring Christmas joy to children and families.
Follow Blue Water Wish for Kids on Facebook for the latest updates, and check back here as we continue updating our website.
Interested in adopting a family, donating gifts, or becoming a community partner? Contact us at connect@bwwfk.org or 810-372-9988. You don't need Facebook to get involved!
Together, we can make A Wish for Christmas come true! 🎄💙
You can follow Blue Water Wish for Kids/A Wish for Christmas on Facebook for the latest updates, and check back here often as we continue updating our website throughout the Christmas season. Families seeking Christmas assistance or anyone interested in helping can contact us for more information.
LET'S MAKE A WISH FOR CHRISTMAS COME TRUE, TOGETHER. 🎄
Every year, local families turn to A Wish for Christmas when they need a little extra help making Christmas possible for their children. Through the incredible support of our community, many families are adopted by individuals, businesses, churches, and groups who shop directly for their children. But that is only part of what happens behind the scenes.
Blue Water Wish for Kids directly fulfills Christmas wishes, too. Each year, we adopt families ourselves to help offset the need, step in for families who are not adopted, fill wishes that remain unmet, and respond when unexpected circumstances leave gaps in a family’s Christmas. Too often, we reach the final weeks before Christmas scrambling to find the additional resources needed to make sure every family we have committed to is taken care of.
We're working to be better prepared as Christmas approaches.
Building our Christmas fund gives us the resources to step in when needed. It also allows us to confidently say yes to more eligible local families instead of limiting how many we can serve simply because we do not know whether the resources will be there.
Your donation helps give us that ability.
Let’s make A Wish for Christmas come true, together. 💙🎄
Help Us Build Our 2026 Christmas Fund 🎄💙
$5500 Goal
Every donation helps us prepare before the need peaks, directly fulfill Christmas wishes, step in when gaps arise, and give us the ability to say yes to more local families.
From adopting a family to donating gifts or getting your business, church, or group involved, there are many ways to help make Christmas wishes come true.