Several Hope Lutheran Church members are involved with Gilmer County’s newly formed Community Action Team Kid’s Ferst. This is a unique partnership between Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library with the purpose of getting books in the hands of all our preschool children. For just $35 per child/per year, books are mailed on a monthly basis, free of charge, to each registered child from birth to 5 years of age.  

We need your help and invite you to make a difference in the life of a child by sending a tax deductible donation to Kids Ferst in Gilmer County, P.O. Box 105, Ellijay, GA 30540. If each Bible study group or Sunday School class could sponsor a child, it would be a tremendous help. With a donation of $300 or more, you become a founding member of Gilmer’s Ferst Fifty, which entitles you to a variety of “perks” throughout the year. But of course we welcome any contribution, whether it be a one time gift of $35 or your support by volunteering to help register children and spread the word. For more information, call Judy Harvey at 305 849-0066 (cell phone - thus the FL area code).  Need more information?  Check out www.kidsferstingilmercounty.org locally or www.ferstfoundation.org nationally.