08/25/2026
Dolly’s legacy is such a powerful reminder of why community matters. Whether it's putting a book in a child's hands or helping a family secure a safe place to sleep, every single act of love ripples forward. Huge shoutout to Family Promise of Greater Wichita for putting this so beautifully!
Tonight, along with so many, we’re remembering Dolly Parton - and one of the things we love most about her had nothing to do with a stage. 💛
Dolly understood something we believe deeply at Family Promise:
You don’t have to be a child’s parent to help shape their future.
Through decades of generosity - and especially through her extraordinary commitment to childhood literacy - she invested in children she would never meet, simply because she believed they deserved the opportunity to learn, imagine, and dream. Her Imagination Library grew to put books into the hands of millions of children around the world, including many Family Promise kids.
Dolly’s efforts feel very familiar around here.
Every week, we watch volunteers prepare meals for someone else’s children. Donors invest in their futures. Churches create places for them to play. Community partners help their parents overcome barriers. And countless people decide that the wellbeing of children they may never know personally is still worth showing up for.
Because children don’t grow up in isolation.
They grow up surrounded by all of us.
Dolly showed us all what can happen when someone takes their gifts, their resources, their influence - and uses them to make the world a little better for the children coming behind them.
What a beautiful legacy to leave.
Thank you, Dolly, for loving generations of children so well. We’ll keep doing our part, too. 💛