Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

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Simon and Schuster, Oct 4, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 288 pages
The New York Times bestslling account of a courageous eighteen-year-old from Nashville who gave up every comfort and convenience to become the adoptive mother to thirteen girls in Uganda.

What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother’s heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (because they think she has gone off the deep end), and break up with the love of her life, all so she could move to Uganda, where she knew only one person and didn’t even speak the language?

A passion to follow Jesus.

Katie Davis left over Christmas break of her senior year for a short mission trip to Uganda and her life was turned completely inside out. She found herself so moved by the people of Uganda and the needs she saw that she knew her calling was to return and care for them. Katie, a charismatic and articulate young woman, is in the process of adopting thirteen children in Uganda and has established a ministry, Amazima, that feeds and sends hundreds more to school while teaching them the Word of Jesus Christ.

Kisses from Katie invites readers on a journey of radical love down the red dirt roads of Uganda. You’ll laugh and cry with Katie as she follows Jesus into the impossible and finds joy and beauty beneath the dust. Katie and her children delight in saying yes to the people God places in front of them and challenge readers to do the same, changing the world one person at a time.
 

Contents

Falling in Lovewith a Country
1
In the Crucible of Contradiction
17
Enough to Go Around
29
Saying Yes
43
Can I Call You Mommy?
57
A Change of Heart
69
Deep Hunger Deep Gladness
81
How Great a Distance Love Can Bridge
93
A Glimpse of Heaven
139
Amazing Grace
155
A Different Kind of Education
171
Three Thousand Friends
183
Just One More
197
He Sets the Solitary in Families
211
Counting the Cost
225
AJja Ja for Us
237

Everything I Need
107
A Promise to Keep
119
Living the Secret
131
Always Enough
251
Notes
265
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Katie Davis moved to Uganda over a decade ago with no idea that this would be the place that God chose to build her home and her family. Today, she is wife to Benji and mom to her fourteen favorite people. Katie and her family invest their lives in empowering the people of Uganda with education, medical care, and spiritual discipleship. She is also the founder of Amazima Ministries, an organization that cares for vulnerable children and families in Uganda. She is the author of New York Times bestsellers Kisses from Katie and Daring to Hope.

Beth Clark is a writer and publishing consultant and runs a business called Thinkspot Communications in Franklin, Tennessee.

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