Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

This is her first book. . Katie Davis is a young woman with a passion to serve Jesus. Katie is originally from Nashville, Tennessee, where her parents and brother live. You can read her blog at kissesfromkatiespot. Now twenty-two, Katie lives in Uganda, where she is in the process of adopting thirteen little gir

Sally Ferguson said Courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step. This book is profoundly disturbing. And it shakes me to the core. Kisses from Katie is the story of a high school senior who travels to Uganda and subsequently invests her life in the people she meets there. Katie Davis says her life is not extraordinary, but she goes on to describe extraordinary ways the Lord shows up in desperate circumstances.Katie Davis came with no formal training, no formal backing and no formal plan. She was compelled to get involved, . Ruined for 'normal' Ritamar I wish I had the time to write the kind of review the book deserves. I can count on one hand the books that have truly challenged and changed me in a lasting way and this book is one of them. The overriding theme of her story is that the gospel is simple - not easy but simple. It's moment by moment saying 'yes' to the people and needs God places before us.If you long for a life of significance and purpose, the message in this book is very clear - our signific. Much food for thought I have been pondering this book for days and asking God what He would have me to take from it. It is an incredible story of a girl who is head over heels in love with Jesus and her desire to serve Him by serving "the least of these". I don't think one can read this book without having a change in thinking about what it really means to follow Jesus.The book is informative in statistics and the description of abject poverty in Uganda, but it is so much deeper t

All the time. I want to work so hard that I end every day filthy and too tired to move. I want to go to the gym; I want my hair to look nice; I want to be allowed to wear jeans. I want to be challenged endlessly. My life in the red dirt of Uganda "Sometimes I want to spend hours talking with my best friends about boys and fashion and school and life. I want to be a normal young woman living in America, sometimes. I want to be taught by those I teach, and I want to share God’s love with people who otherwise might not know it. I want to be spiritually and emotionally filled every day. But I want other things more. I want to wake up to a rooster’s crow and open my eyes to see lush green trees that seem to pulse with life against a piercing blue sky and the rusty red soil of Uganda. I want to make some kind of difference, no matter how small, and I want to follow the calling God has placed on my heart. I want to give my life away, to serve the Lord with each breath. I want to be loved and cuddled by a hundred children and never go a day without laughing. At the end of the day, no matter how hard, I want to be right here in Uganda." -Katie Davis

I highly encourage you to read this captivating account of obedience to God's call, and I challenge you to consider what you are doing to 'care for the least of these.'"--Dr. Wess Stafford, President and CEO, Compassion International"I was blown away when I first heard of Katie's incredible story. It will literally transform everything about you and guide the way for you to take your ordinary life and fashion it into something extraordinary."--Tom Davis, author of Red Letters, Fields of the Fatherless, and Priceless"As I read Katie's book, I felt like I was reading Amy Carmichael. She is a role model of what it looks to follow Jesus in the twenty-first century. Yet her reckless, Peter-like love calls the bluff of a Christianity that refers to Jesus as 'Lord' with only partial intent of doing what he says. If you want to love Jesus more and better understand his love for the least of these, read "Kisses from Katie". As Amy did in her life