Daring to Hope by Katie Davis Majors

Daring to Hope by Katie Davis Majors is this authors next book of life in Uganda.  This author headed to Uganda as a 19 year old for a short term mission trip.  I have not read any of Katie's other books but judging from this one they must be good.  Katie tells of her organization, Amazima Ministries, which she founded to care for vulnerable children and families.  Now when Katie says she cares for these people  she really means it.  She personally cares for them even if it means having a doctor teach her how to care for burns that are from the ankle to the knee and to the bone and no one thinks that the person will survive.  She took that burn victim into her home and also fed him and provided housing and taught him the Word and read to him from the Bible.  She cared for women with Aids as they died and then found foster parents for their children when theie mother died.  This is a woman who lives the Word she does not just preach it.  She has 13 adopted daughters and has fostered many more.  Katie tells of taking time to find and fall in love with her husband, Benji in this book.  She has lived in Uganda for over 10 years and now considers it home.  In fact in this book she tells of taking a child to the United States for needed surgery and returned to Uganda while awaiting his healing with her American family.  That child then returned to Uganda and she welcomed him back home.

Katie is an amazing women but in all her work she gives all praise to God.  She tells in this book how to have faith in God when His answer is not what you prayed for.  She tells of her great faith in the Almighty and from reading the book the reader is aware that this is not just words---she lives and believes this.  I think that this book would be a great book for any believer who is old enough to read and understand.  Katie is an amazing woman.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Beneath the Summer Sun by Kelly Irvin

Beneath the Summer Sun by Kelly Irvin is the 2nd in the An Every Amish Season series.  In this novel Jennie Troyer has been a widow for 4 years and is no closer to trusting herself in picking a man to be her life partner nor her children's new father.  In her first marriage she thought she was so in love with the best man ever when she married Atlee and Atlee had yelled at her and told her she was clumsy or stupid and sometimes that was worse than when he physically abused her or made her sleep in the barn.  Sometimes she could figure out what made him mad but many times it seemed that he just flew off the handle and she never could figure out why.  When he died in an accident she felt guilty that she was relieved but that didn't make her sorry that he was gone.  In the Amish faith when a person makes a vow to be married it is for life and there is no way out unless God releases you.  The Amish believe that if your spouse dies that if possible the widow should quickly remarry and "get on with life".  Her best friend Bess was getting ready to marry her first husband's best friend and was quite happy about it but Jennie was no closer to remarriage than the day that Atlee died. 

In her community were 2 men who thought differently, Nathan, a Mennonite man and Leo Graber an Amish man who had caught her eye before she married Atlee but now seemed to have renewed interest in Jennie.  Atlee had been kind and loving before they married but by 6 months was already mistreating her, so how did she know that Nathan or Leo wouldn't do the same thing?  She now had 7 children to think of not just herself.   Could Jennie ever learn to trust God and man again?  Both of the men interested in her seemed to have problems that they needed to overcome in the trust game also. How could she work on trusting herself and help them learn to trust also?  If she did learn to trust these men how could she choose between them?  Read this book to find out if Jennie ever learns to live the life that God intended her to have.

I liked reading this book and think that any woman would also enjoy it unless the issue of domestic violence hits too close to home.  This book centers on both domestic violence as well as learning to trust after living with the violence.
I received this book from BookLook Bloggers for this review.