The Dolly Dock

11/14/2025

11/14/2025

✨ Our next NEPA Mothers Village In-Person Group gathering is coming up! ✨

Join us for connection, conversation, and a little time to refill your cup. Whether it’s your first time coming to a meeting or if you’ve been with us before, you’re always welcome in this circle of support & understanding. 💕

Come as you are...messy bun, tired eyes, and all! This space is for real motherhood.

💫 Reminder: In efforts to contribute to the Baby Formula Drive that is being organized by Zummo's Cafe & Outreach, we will be collecting powder or ready to feed infant formula. Anyone who brings a can of formula to donate will receive an extra raffle entry for our NEPA Mothers Village monthly giveaway!

📅 Monday, Nov. 17, 2025
📍 Abington Community – Story Room
1200 W Grove St, Clarks Summit, PA 18411
🕠 5:30–6:30 PM

Be sure to follow NEPA Mothers Village Facebook group for meeting updates, mom friends, local events, and more!

11/11/2025

Please consider donating if you are able. If you need assistance, please visit outreachworks.org 🫶🏻

outreach_works 💙

10/02/2025

When mothers are thrown into the boiling water of jail and probation, many either break apart or grow hard.

But a coffee bean changes the water itself.

DOLLY Dock is that coffee bean.
It turns the pressure of the system into a place of warmth and life, where mothers and babies are safe, nurtured, and prepared for new beginnings.

Not broken. Not hardened. Transformed.

09/21/2025

🍼💜We are proud to be fortunate enough to serve those in need within our community. Do you know someone who can benefit from the Baby and Children's Pantry? Call us and make an appointment for assistance! 570-207-6640 🍼💜

09/21/2025

Join us for storytime, once a month, with beloved retired kindergarten teacher Chris Archangelo. We will also be creating a craft to go along with the theme of the story.
Wednesday September 24th - 10am
Saturday October 25th - 10am
Wednesday November - 19th

09/06/2025

Looking for some Fall fun this Sunday?

Come out to Roba Family Farms where I will be a guest reader in their Storybook Nook this Sunday at 11:30am helping to raise awareness of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program sends one free, age-appropriate book each month to every child (birth–age 5) who signs up. Books can light up a child’s imagination!

Hope to see you there 🍂

08/31/2025

🌿 The Family Behind DOLLY Dock

The DOLLY Dock vision is not abstract. It lives and breathes in our family. Each of my children already embodies what DOLLY Dock is meant to be:

• My daughter, the nursery servant. She waited four years until she was old enough — 5th grade — to serve with babies in the church nursery. The very moment she qualified this summer, she stepped in with joy. That eagerness is the Dock’s heartbeat: service delayed, but not denied.
• My five-year-old, the neighbor’s friend. Every day she visits our elderly neighbor, watering her flowers, sharing her day, asking if she needs anything. She reminds us that service doesn’t wait for adulthood — love takes root early.
• My baby, Dahlia. Her birth is the Dock itself. She brought the whole vision into being — a sanctuary for mothers and infants in their most fragile season. Dahlia is the Dock embodied.
• My son Jude. His challenges brought us into the courts, into hardship, into long nights of worry. Yet he is the very reason we will not turn away from the most vulnerable. His life teaches that no matter how hard, no matter how misunderstood, we do not give up.
• My steady boys:
• Jesse is a sweet, magnetic boy — loved by his friends, embraced by his school, a quiet reminder that goodness is attractive in its own right.
• Jonah is bright and charming, even in his extra support classes — always the light in the group that needed light most.

Together, they show this is not theory. This is a family rhythm of care, across generations, across challenges, across all seasons of life.

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✨ Donors, and Supporters

I know my story is complicated. I’ve walked through trouble and stood in courtrooms. But if you look at this picture — you see something divine at work.

DOLLY Dock is not just a program. It is a living sanctuary:
• For mothers who are finishing their sentences,
• For newborns who deserve safety and nurture,
• For a justice system that longs for mercy without losing order,
• For communities that want redemption to be real, not theoretical.

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The doubts will come. The dark days will come. The obstacles will come. But we believe — and we ask you to believe with us — that DOLLY Dock can be the light in the darkest moment, the sanctuary in the hardest season, the bridge between judgment and mercy.

🌿 We invite you to trust, to hope, to give. Because this isn’t just about us. It’s about mothers and children who deserve their own second chance — not in theory, but in life.

08/28/2025

08/12/2025

In all things, we seek the greater glory of God—
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam—trusting that every day is a step in our shared calling.

07/31/2025

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