Join us April 18, 2026!
HALO's Celebration and Vision Dinner
Planting seeds * Cultivating Skills * Growing Futures

The Garden Party GALA

This event will feature powerful testimonies, live music, a special guest speaker, Michael Cravin, silent auctions/raffles, and a delicious dinner catered by the Georgia National Fairgrounds, all to raise funds for the ongoing work of The HALO Group. Join us at our inaugural gala event, as we share the testimony of HALO Group, our mission, past and current impact in our community and our vision for the future.

Come GROW with us!

Saturday, April 18th, 2026 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds/Georgia Grown building.
Doors open at 5:00pm Dinner will be served at 6pm

Table Host $450, (6 seats) includes dinner and entertainment
Individual tickets $75, (each seat) includes dinner and entertainment

Once table host are registered, the host name will appear in the drop down box for invitees to register. Detailed information will be sent closer to the event

We are still accepting event sponsors through March 31st! If your business, organization, church or group would like to be an event sponsor, details are listed under the registration tab or email HaloGroupGa@gmail.com for more information.

Guest Speaker: S. Michael Craven, Vice President, Equipping & Mobilization, Colson Center

Michael is an accomplished executive, worldview expert, cultural apologist, and author. Ever since leaving his career as a corporate CEO in 2001, Michael has been working to equip the Church in America with a robust Christian life and worldview.

In 2007, Michael founded the Center for Christ & Culture where his popular weekly commentaries grew to reach more than two million readers through Crosswalk.com, Christianity.com, The Christian Post and numerous other web-based outlets. In 2009, Michael authored his critically-acclaimed book, Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity (NavPress). He also contributed to the 2014 book, Same-Sex Marriage: A Thoughtful Approach to God’s Design for Marriage by John Stonestreet and Sean McDowell.

Michael has been a featured speaker at many venues including, the University of California at Berkeley, the National Conference on Christian Apologetics, and numerous churches across the country. He served as an adjunct professor at Western Seminary where he was invited to teach on Cultural Apologetics. He has appeared on Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, and many other national television and radio programs.

Prior to joining The Colson Center, Michael served for five years as the president of BridgeBuilders, an inner-city ministry in South Dallas, where he pioneered a missional strategy for transforming the “culture of poverty” into a culture of flourishing, breaking the cycle of poverty that dominates America’s inner-city communities. Michael lives in the Dallas area with his wife and three children.

Live music performed by:

Thank you to our event sponsors!