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.
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