Kisses From Katie

Kisses From Katie Review

A.P. Language

Ryan Niebruegge

Kisses From Katie, the life of Katie Davis, is about a teenage girl and her adventures in Uganda. During her senior year of high school, she confronted her parents about taking a gap year before she went to college to try and share the love of Jesus to people in a country that are less fortunate than she is. Her parents weren't very willing, so they told her she could go for Christmas break. Katie's parents were hoping this would make her change her mind about spending a whole year there, but her time in Uganda made her want to be there even more.
         As Katie's senior year was coming to an end, a man from an orphanage offered her a job as a kindergarten teacher. It didn't pay well, but he also gave her a place to stay. She left the comfort of her hometown, friends and family, and life of an upper-class citizen. Schooling in Uganda is very expensive for most people, but she was offering a cheap education, which resulted in having over one hundred students in her small classroom. But she managed, and fell in love with all the kids and decided she should start her own Ministry.

At the age of 19, Katie Davis started the Ministry Amazima, which means Truth in the main language of Uganda. Through this organization, she was sending kids from very broke families to school, using money raised in America, and she ended up buying her own house and adopting twelve little girls. She went to hospitals with these girls to feed the patients, and share the love of Jesus Christ. Through the last five years, she has shown so many children how much Jesus loves them, and has helped them through anything illnesses that have come across them. 

The main purpose Katie had to wrote this, was to spread awareness of what she was doing. It was a great way to help get money for her organization and to help send kids to school. Katie says the kids of Uganda are who can change what it is like there. The best way to help the kids change their country is to send them to school. This is exactly what Katie is trying to achieve with the book; a better education for the future of Uganda. She is really doing great things there and deserves to have as much money for the children of Uganda as she can get her hands on.

I highly recommend this book. It is very inspirational and shows you that no matter what your age is, you can change the lives of so many people. The main writing style of Katie Davis was to make it just like her journal entries. At the end of each chapter, she would put an entry that related to the point of the chapter. This showed the reader what it must have been like living at that exact moment. She did a great job of showing what happened earlier on in her life, but with the journal entries, you could get into her head and see what she was feeling as these life changing events were happening.

All in all, this book is a great way to inspire the reader and to show there are people still doing good in our world. It shows that you can do these things as well, just to follow where you feel God is calling you to.