Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption Paperback – September 4, 2012 by Katie Davis Majors

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Author: Katie Davis Majors

Brand: Howard Books

Edition: Reprint

Features:

• Howard Books

Package Dimensions: 21x286x259

Number Of Pages: 304

Release Date: 04-09-2012

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The New York Times bestselling 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 Majors 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, adopted
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.
Review
“A breathtaking journey into the sorrow and beauty of abandon to Jesus Christ. Katie Davis is young, still learning daily how best to serve. 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. This is not a book to read if you wish for your comfort, convenience, and control to remain undisturbed. But if you stand willing to act upon belief, here you will encounter the full heartache and joy that await any person who ventures near to God’s heart through adoption and other ways of loving the orphan in distress.”–Jedd Medefind, president, Christian Alliance for Orphans

“As I read Katie’s book, I felt like I was reading Amy Carmichael. As Amy did in her life, Katie shows Jesus to be amazingly wonderful not only in what she writes, but also in how she selflessly cares for the fatherless. If you want to love Jesus more and better understand his love for the least of these, read “Kisses from Katie”. She is for our generation what Amy was for hers: a hero in fulfilling God’s call to care for orphans.”–Dan Cruver, director, Together for Adoption, author of Reclaiming Adoption

“I was blown away when I first heard of Katie’s incredible story. I’m excited many others will now have the opportunity to be inspired and challenged by it.”–Scott Harrison, Founder/CEO of charity: water

“I was profoundly moved, challenged, and convicted as I read “Kisses from K”atie, and I came away wanting to know Jesus the way that Katie does. This is an honest and compelling account of one young woman’s journey of obedience to a Jesus who loves the whole world, especially the forgotten and the marginalized. Jesus was the most revolutionary and subversive man who ever lived. Following Him should lead us to be graciously radical in His name.”–Mike Erre, author of Why the Bible Matters and The Jesus of Suburbia

“Katie is one of the most courageous and inspiring young women I have ever met. She is a role model of what it looks to follow Jesus in the twenty-first century. “Kisses from Katie” will be one of those books you cannot put down. 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

“Katie Davis has the story that makes radio talk show hosts

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