by Katie Davis
First published 2011
Katie Davis stands at eighteen with everything a Tennessee girl could want. She holds the title of senior class president and homecoming queen in Nashville. College acceptance letters wait on her desk. Her boyfriend plans their future together. Her family expects her to follow the prescribed path. Then a Christmas mission trip to Uganda changes everything. Katie sees children without homes, families without food, people without hope. She feels called to return permanently. Her parents object. Her friends think she has lost her mind. Her little brother cries when she leaves. Her boyfriend ends their relationship. Katie goes anyway. She adopts fourteen Ugandan children, including some with special needs. She trusts God to provide daily bread for her growing family. She creates Amazima Ministries to connect orphans with sponsors worldwide. The program grows from her expected forty children to over four hundred. She feeds lunch to twelve hundred displaced Karamojong children each weekday and sends them home with dinner plates. At twenty-one, Katie has built a life of radical service.
Genres: memoir, 21st-century, adoption, africa, inspirational, christian-living
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, inspirational
Setting: Tennessee, Uganda
Period: 21st-century
275 pages · Hardcover · Howard Books