My sweet friend Betty, one of our sponsored children (2009)
Uncle Raoul leading worship (2009) Photograph by Kristin Laughlin
Both Baby Patricia and our pet monkey, Franko, love eating apples (January 2010)
The beads made by the women of Masese are sold to provide them with a sustainable income for their families (2010)
Driving through Masese with my van full of girls (2010) Photograph by Karen Logan
Visiting with Jja Ja Grace
Zuula and Sarah giving a hand to their friends (2010)
New Amazima playground (2010) Photograph by Kim Nunn
Margaret, Jja Ja, Patricia, Zuula, and Prossy
The children at our Saturday Bible Study (2010) Photograph by Kim Nunn
Michael, all better! (2010)
Sumini (2009) Photograph by Katie Lentile
Baby Agnes, one of many children we have had the privilege of loving back to health
Sarah, Mommy, and Tibita (2010) Photograph by Kim Nunn
Margaret and Prossy (2010)
Joyce (2010) Photograph by Karen Logan
Mary (2010) Photograph by Karen Logan
Baby Katie, my sweet friend in Masese (2010) Photograph by Karen Logan
Zuula and Scovia (2010)
Carrying food bags home after Bible study. THe bags are heavy, but the kids are all smiles! (2010) Photograph by Kim Nunn
The gate of our home is always open Photograph by Kristin Laughlin
© JACQUELINE GRACE KRAMLICH
KATIE DAVIS is a young woman with a passion to serve Jesus. Now twenty-two, Katie lives in Uganda, where she is in the process of adopting thirteen little girls and is the founder and director of Amazima, a ministry that reaches hundreds of other children in Uganda. Katie is originally from Nashville, Tennessee, where her parents and brother live. This is her first book. You can read her blog at www.kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com.
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NOTES
CHAPTER 3
1. http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/uganda/uganda_people.html.
CHAPTER 7
1. http://www.bread.org/hunger/global.
2. http://www.unicef.org/health/index_26163.html.
3. Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (New York: Simon & Schuster), 14. There is no publication date on the copyright page of the book, only a copyright date for the illustrations, which is 1983.
4. http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/press/who.php.
CHAPTER 8
1. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective (New York: Doubleday, 1986), 96–97.
CHAPTER 15
1. http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/famine-in-uganda.
2. http://www.drt-ug.org/dev/publications//Understanding%20Chronic%20Poverty%20in%20Karamoja.pdf.
3. http://www.unicef.org/evaluation/files/LL_Equity22Feb11version_2.pdf.
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1. Davis, Katie, 1988– 2. Orphans—Services for—Uganda. 3. Orphans—Uganda—Social conditions. 4. Orphanages—Uganda. 5. Church work with orphans—Uganda. 6. Social work with children—Uganda. I. Clark, Beth, 1967– II. Title.
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