So I read this book once, called Kisses From Katie. It looks like this:
Looks pretty harmless, right?
Wrong.
This book completely ravaged my heart and made changes in me that will last for eternity. No exaggeration.
In 2006, Katie Davis was an 18 year old from Tennessee who went on a mission trip to Uganda. It began as simply as that. In 2007, prompted by God, she started an Education Sponsorship Outreach to provide education, food, medical care, and spiritual discipleship for the vast number of children there who could not afford it. By the end of 2008, there were over 150 children in the program.
And then, she decided to stay for good, because “returning to normal wasn’t possible” after what she had experienced in Uganda. She put aside her life in America, and all the comforts and familiar things that went along with it, including her family and her boyfriend and her life plans, because she knew there was something better. She then started the organization Amazima Ministries International to meet the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of the people she had fallen in love with. “Amazima” means “truth” in the native language. And then, one by one, she became the mother of 13 adopted little girls who had no one else to take care of them.
During part of this journey, she was introduced to an area of Uganda called Masese and the Karimojong people who lived there, who were losing their children to malnutrition and starvation. She began the Masese Feeding Outreach which gives food to around 1,200 children every weekday.
She also started a vocational program to empower the women there to sustain and take care of their own families by making and selling paper bead jewelry.
Amazima now has a total of 7 different outreaches to the people of Uganda, as well as child sponsorship.
My heart-strings are tied to Uganda because of this young woman and her act of obedience in listening to Jesus, and choosing to sure it with the world. That is why 10% of every dollar spent of session fees, prints, canvases, and everything else that Kira Adele Photography offers goes to Amazima ministries. So every time you book a session, help is provided for people in need in Uganda. Because I love Uganda. Will you love Uganda with me?
Love,
Kira
P.S. : All this information and more is on Amazima’s website.
