About Miriam Ministry
Miriam Ministry empowers parents and caretakers of Washington County, Georgia children with essential items that will enable their families to be successful during the earliest phase of a child’s life. Miriam Ministry specifically provides diapers, age-appropriate books, and developmental toys to infants ages newborn through age 2. These items help meet the financial needs today and help enable disadvantaged children to become healthier physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Working with local organizations, since our inception in February 2022 and as of August 2025, Miriam Ministry has distributed 144,813 diapers, 2,058 developmental toys, and 7,527 books. In addition, as we partner with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and Ferst Readers, well over 300 books go out monthly to Washington County children’s homes.
Miriam Ministry has grown each month thanks to the generosity of our community and the passion of our Board and volunteers. We are changing the conversation about early childhood development and literacy, in both the homes of families and in the larger community, by recognizing the needs of our families of young children.
Miriam Ministry, since it began in early 2022, has already touched the lives of hundreds of children. It intends to make a measurable difference in our community’s physical health, its literacy, and early child development.
Period Product Initiative
Miriam Ministry is now also sponsoring a period product initiative, supplying items to young girls and women in Washington County. This has been christened the "Daisy Fresh" endeavor. We have been fortunate to have almost all supplies donated by women in the community.
Why are we called "Miriam Ministry?"
Miriam, as we read in the Bible book of Exodus, was the older sister of Moses. He was put in a basket in the Nile river to be hidden, as all Hebrew baby boys were to be killed. When he was found by Pharaoh's daughter, Miriam was near, volunteering her mother as a nursemaid to care for him. In that spirit, we wish to enable mothers in our community to be better able to care for their children, by supplying diapers, books and developmental toys!
It is the Miriam Ministry Inc.'s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming), sex or gender, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, military or veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, or any other reason prohibited by law.