1. Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
    Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark
    Howard Books / 2012 / Trade Paperback
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  1. Lala
    Age: 18-24
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    An Amazing Story of How Great God Is!
    December 8, 2013
    Lala
    Age: 18-24
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Before reading this novel, God revealed to my family and I that were going to be "missionaries" to Cambodia. I can't say exactly how we will get there or when we will go, but I do know that God has placed this calling on my family's heart and we plan to answer it with a "yes" to our Lord and Savior. Through Katie's story it gave me hope in knowing that right now I don't have to know to answer to these questions and other questions that might come up, but like Katie, God will provide the way (and continue too!) for it to happen. I just have to trust Him.

    Having experienced this calling prior to opening up the first page, I was so blessed to read Katie's story! She paints such a beautiful picture of her journey with Christ and how her calling came to be. She doesn't hesitate in explaining her love for her family in Uganda or hesitate in showing her human struggles. I really felt Katie's heart and love for the people of Uganda through each page, even if there were times that I was tearing up.

    I want to say I was blown away by the stories that Katie tells, but I realized that like she said she is just a woman who said "yes" to God. All Christians have the potential to do things she is doing as well as see the miracles she has seen in our own backyards or even overseas. I was thoroughly inspired and encouraged to continue to say "yes" to God concerning the calling He has placed on my family's life.

    "Kisses from Katie" isn't a "light" book, but it definitely tells a story of how great God is and truly how deep His love is for us. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who is struggling with thoughts of "How can a good God let bad things happen?," unsure if God has even placed a calling on their own life, and becoming inspired to step out in faith in one's own personal relationship with the Lord.

    I give this novel a 5 out of 5 stars!
  2. Lovestoread
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Be ready to learn some lessons!
    January 4, 2017
    Lovestoread
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    I found this book inspirational. It made me stop and consider the way I live my life and ponder if my priorities are God-centered or me-centered.
  3. Karen
    FL
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Best Book EVER
    May 29, 2014
    Karen
    FL
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    I manage a Christian bookstore and am often asked what is my favorite book in the store. Without hesitation, this is the book I recommend. Kisses from Katie will encourage you, make you cry, fill you with laughter, lift you up when you're down and give great insight into the life of an amazing young woman who simply said "yes" to God.

    I would recommend that everyone reads this book. It's good for all ages, and for people from all walks of life. By far the best book I've ever read - and I've been an avid reader for over 50 years!

    Let God inspire you through this book...you'll be glad you did!
  4. M. Pieper
    Mount Dora, FL
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Read It, Then Live It
    December 19, 2011
    M. Pieper
    Mount Dora, FL
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    "Jesus wrecked my life."

    These powerful words from Katie Davis provide a beautiful portrait in miniature of KISSES FROM KATIE: A RELENTLESS STORY OF LOVE AND REDEMPTION (Howard Books, 2011). Katie's 22, but her story will appeal to readers young and old.

    Jesus wrecked Katie's comfortable, loose-ends-tied up, American teenager life because she chose to listen–and obey. Like the biblical Philip on the way to Gaza, she took the road less traveled in response to God's call. At first, that road led to a short-term missions trip in a Ugandan orphanage. Katie's parents no doubt thought that would take care of her little missions kick.

    But they didn't count on Jesus. And they certainly didn't count on Katie.

    KISSES FROM KATIE, like the author's popular blog, details her adventures as first mission volunteer, then kindergarten teacher and ultimately adoptive mom of fourteen, founder of a nonprofit organization, and long-term missionary to Uganda. No, Katie doesn't preach a social gospel. Instead, she lives the whole gospel, the one that compels us to wash our neighbor's feet and to love those neighbors as we love ourselves. She lives out that gospel day after day amongst a hopeless people in a desperate place.

    You see, this isn't a book you read. Collaborative writer Beth Clark combines a narrative thread and Katie's journal entries with such skill that you experience Katie's story alongside her. You pick hundreds of jiggers (burrowing insects) from a child's inflamed skin. You prepare meals for your family without benefit of microwave or fast-food restaurant. You dance and hug and laugh at the center a circle of children who may never have known a loving touch. Above all, you hurt as Jesus hurts. You love as He does. And, like He does, you stay. You stay because you can do nothing else.

    Put this book at the top of your must-read list for 2012. People matter to Jesus. It's our privilege, responsibility, and message to carry that message in ways that cost.

    Read it. Live it. And allow Jesus to wreck your life, too.
  5. Nightstand Reader
    Brentwood, TN
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    a remarkable faith, love - and story
    November 2, 2011
    Nightstand Reader
    Brentwood, TN
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: male
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    We moved to Brentwood, Tennessee, in January 2006. My youngest daughter, Caroline, was a junior in high school. You can imagine how nervous we were as parents on how the move would go for an almost-senior (and for the two other kids still in the house). Within days Caroline met two Katies who welcomed her to Ravenwood High School and made her feel as if she had grown up in their circle of friends. I'm still sighing with relief.

    One of the wonderful Katies - Katie Davis - took a different path after graduation to say the least. She is now the unmarried mother of 14 young girls. Is that even possible? Is this one of those stories about youth gone bad?

    I need to give a warning to any potential readers at this point. Do not pick up Kisses from Katie if you live a comfortable life and don't want anything or anyone messing up your comfort zone.

    Katie's story is a story of youth gone good. It is both heartwarming and heartbreaking - and in reading it you will never be satisfied with a status quo lifestyle again. If you have never felt a gentle nudge from God that you have something beyond yourself to accomplish in this world - or if you have suppressed and ignored the nudge - this book serves as a loud, clanging, blaring wakeup call to hear and embrace your call.

    "Kids" can be idealists - and when Caroline told me Katie was going to do a yearlong mission project before attending college, I thought that sounded great - that it would be good for her. Little did I know ... I did know Katie's parents were quite nervous when she said the project would be serving in an orphanage in Uganda. After surveying the situation in Africa carefully, her dad reluctantly gave his permission for her to go - with the condition that she promise to come back and enroll in college and move on with her life. She was true to her word - but even as she attended classes the fall of her return, she was miserable, thinking only of her "girls" back in Uganda.

    Katie - high school homecoming queen and student body president and honor student and girlfriend to a handsome, committed, spiritual, star athlete - had every reason to "come home." But her heart was back in Uganda with the motherless children she had fallen in love with. Is it any wonder that the name she has been given by the people of her village is "Mommy." Katie's ongoing adventures in Uganda are amazing and fit the adage that truth is stranger than fiction. In her case, it is not stranger, but more incredible.

    My family has been blessed by the Katie who befriended the "new kid" at school. We've been privileged to meet two of her daughters, Patricia and Grace. Most of all we have been inspired to step out of our comfort zone and to look around to see what God is doing in the world that we need to take part in.

    I can't recommend Kisses from Katie highly enough for the spiritual blessings you will experience reading this story of relentless love and redemption.

    -Mark Gilroy
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