[JESUS CALLING VIDEO STORY] Dolly Parton Believes In God and In Helping Others

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🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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[VIDEO STORY] Country superstar Dolly Parton was raised to believe that “Jesus loves her, and that with God, nothing is impossible.” Dolly never forgot her roots, and as massive success came her way over the years, she always looked for ways to give back. In 1995, inspired by her father's struggles with reading, she launched the Imagination Library, providing books monthly to children during their first 5 years of life--they have given away over 100 million books to foster a love of reading. Now, 50 years from the release of her first record, Dolly continues to speak encouragement into the lives of families and children with her first ever children's album titled “I Believe In You,” for which all proceeds go to The Imagination Library.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Jesus Calling video stories. Today we speak with country music superstar Dolly Pardon.
0:07.0	Dolly's Eclectic and Impactful Career has been recognized through the numerous awards she's received, including Emmy, Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Awards.
0:16.0	Dolly's dream has been to make as many people happily as she could in this life.
0:20.0	50 years from the release of her first record, Dolly released her first ever children's
0:25.4	album titled, I Believe in You. Dolly shares about her own childhood and what inspired her
0:30.6	to create this record.
0:31.6	First just tell us about your upbringing in East Tennessee.
0:35.0	Well, I grew up in a family of 12 kids.
0:37.0	A lot of people know my story.
0:38.0	A lot of people don't.
0:39.0	My grandpa was a Pentecosto preacher.
0:42.0	So I grew up in the church, loving the Lord, believing that Jesus loved
0:45.4	me and that through God all things were possible. And my mom and dad was just country people,
0:50.4	farm folk. We just grew our own food, raised our own crops. Everybody has their own
0:55.9	crops that they sell. And so we just was just country simple people with a lot of
1:01.3	faith and a lot of faith and my love.
1:03.0	So talking about church, how did that kind of influence you, I mean both personally but also your music?
1:09.0	Well, it was really powerful on both sides.
1:13.4	As I said, mama was very spiritual also.
1:15.6	My grandpa was my mom's dad that was a preacher.
1:18.8	And so they were all very musical as well.
1:21.0	My grandpa was a great musician and he played the piano, he played guitar,
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