2025 Holiday Festival
November 13-17
This year's event supports the expansion of the SBL Regional Cancer Center
As Sarah Bush Lincoln prepares to expand the Regional Cancer Center, we’re pleased to announce that the 2025 Holiday Festival will support a new SBL Health Foundation Capital Campaign called “Expanding Hope”. This follows the “Building Hope” campaign conducted over a decade ago to raise funds for construction of the Regional Cancer Center. The 21,500 square foot cancer center was built to accommodate 17 oncology infusion chairs, with plenty of waiting room space. But over the years, patient volume has soared.
Just since 2020, the number of patient visits has nearly doubled, in part due to an aging population, but there’s also a national trend in younger people being diagnosed with colorectal, breast, testicular and thyroid cancers and melanoma.
Plans are to expand our Regional Cancer Center to make room for a total of 34 oncology infusion bays, 6 medical infusion bays and extend the now standing-room-only waiting room. There will also be an expansion of diagnostic imaging and pharmacy and a larger parking lot.
Your support of the 2025 Holiday Festival will benefit the “Expanding Hope” campaign. Stay tuned for more information.
Make a donation / Purchase Tickets
ONLINE AUCTION
8 am, Thursday, Nov. 13 - 5 pm, Monday, Nov. 17
Open to the public.
This year’s online auction will feature more than 80 items designed by Sarah Bush Lincoln employees, area residents and businesses, including a wide-variety of home décor and holiday items, handmade wooden trees, fresh greens from Hager Tree Farm and much more. Whether you're shopping for loved ones or treating yourself, every bid helps expand hope.
Friends Night Out
5 to 7 pm, Thursday, November 13
For just $10, enjoy a signature drink and get an exclusive preview of all that this year's event has to offer before the weekend rush. Shop the SBL Gift Shop's Pop-Up Holiday Boutique.
Open to the Public
Noon to 7 pm, Friday, November 14 - 3 to 7 pm Cookies with Claus
Bring the family to view the stunning online and live auction items and shop the SBL Gift Shop's Pop-Up Holiday Boutique. And don't miss Cookies with Claus, where kids can enjoy sweet treats, have their faces painted and share their wish list with Santa.
GALA & LIVE AUCTION
Saturday, November 15 - SOLD OUT
5:30 pm - Cocktail hour
7 pm - Gala and Live Auction
Live Auction Raffle Ticket
The Live Auction will feature 30 elite items with Stokes Auctioneer Shelby Stokes and Meteorologist Jacob Dickey as emcee, adding the fun and excitement. Even if you're not able to come, you can still take a chance at winning one of the Live Auction items. Raffle tickets are just $100 each, or buy 2 get 1 free and if your name is drawn, you get to choose any one* of the Live Auction items. The drawing will be held at 7 pm, just prior to the start of the Auction. You need not be present to win.
*excluding international travel and golf cart package.
Raffle 
Tickets are $5 each or 3 for $10
Sheraton Vistana Resort, Orlando, FL • Two bedroom, two bath condo
March 29 - April 5, 2026 • Plus $1,500 cash
Donated by Mike & Jayne Genta
MEMORY STAR ORNAMENT
Celebrate the memory of a loved one or recognize a Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospice caregiver that was particularly kind while supporting an endowment for SBL’s Willow Breeze Hospice House.
Christmas is a wonderful occasion to honor or thank someone. Purchasing a $40 Memory Star ornament or making a tribute gift also helps patients throughout our 20-county service area afford their stay at Willow Breeze. Most insurance companies pay for nursing care, but not room and board. Orders are due by Monday, November 17, 2025.
For more information about the Holiday Festival, a Live Auction Raffle Ticket, or a Memory Star Ornament, call the SBL Health Foundation at 217-258-2511.