Religion Christian Name Katie Davis | Role Missionary Spouse Benji Majors (m. 2015) | |
Born November 1st, 1989 Nashville, Tennessee Books Kisses from Katie: A Story of R, Kindergarten Rocks!, Mabel the Tooth Fairy and how Profiles | ||
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Katie Davis is a missionary and best selling author, most known for her work in Jinja, Uganda. She currently lives there with her 13 adopted daughters and helps to run Amazima Ministries International. Davis has helped to bring food, schooling, and hope to a Ugandan province that has been ravaged by malnutrition and starvation.
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- Q a with katie davis majors
- Katie davis with david platt at brook hills church
- Early life
- Missionary work
- References
Katie davis with david platt at brook hills church
Early life
Katie Davis was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee by her mother, Mary Pat Davis and father, Scott Davis. She is the oldest child, and has a younger brother named Bradley. Davis was the homecoming queen in high school, as well as her class president, not to mention top in her class. Her parents expected her to go to college, but she had other plans.
Missionary work
Davis went to Uganda for a mission trip in December 2006 during the winter break of her senior year of high school. She was 18 years old at the time. While there she did mission work in a small Ugandan village named Jinja. She fell in love with the Ugandan people and their culture, and decided to go straight back to Uganda in the summer of 2007 after graduating from high school.
Davis taught kindergarten at an orphanage for her first few months in Uganda, where she noticed that there were many children and teenagers who were not attending school. This led to creating a sponsorship program that paired a child with a donor somewhere else in the world who was willing to pay $300 annually to cover the child's costs for school, medical bills, and food. This program led to the creation of Amazima Ministries International in 2008, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group based out of Franklin, Tennessee. The organization currently sponsors over 800 children. In addition to sponsorship, Amazima (which in the Ugandan language means "truth") runs a program to feed children, has a program to sell jewelry manufactured by locals in Uganda which are shipped to customers in the United States, a farming outreach program, and a medical outreach program.
After six years of being in Uganda, Davis had adopted 14 Ugandan orphans. In one instance, the biological mother of one of the foster children won a legal suit to regain custody.
Davis documented her experiences in the book Kisses from Katie, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2011.
