“I want to ask you to come with me on a journey.”
“A journey that started three years ago when I thought I knew what my life would look like, and I had no idea. A journey that has shown me more about the fathers heart and his extravagant compassion than I could have ever imagined. A journey that requires me to give more of myself every single day. It’s a journey that took me from a ten month commitment to teach kindergarten in Uganda, to a lifetime commitment of bettering and serving this country.”
“I’m Katie Davis, I’m 21 years old and I live here in Uganda. I run Amizima Ministries and my full time occupation is that I’m a mum to 14 little girls. At an early age people would ask me at career days what I want to be when I grow up and I always said I wanted to be Mother Teresa. Just because, I guess I just loved her heart for children.”
Kate Returns to Ravenwood High School to speak at the Baccalaureate Service 2010: “I’m eating sushi at my favourite restaurant for my 16th birthday when I tell my parents I’d like to explore the opportunity of doing mission work out of high school. I graduate from high school having made a commitment to teach pre-school for a year in the middle of no-where Uganda.”
“My parents were so not bored, and it came to a point when, okay, God says you choice me or you choice to please your dad, so what’s it going to be. And I said ‘alright I’m going back.”
“It is January and I am looking at a little girl, crushed under a brick wall with no-one to take care of her and her siblings. I offer to take them home with me until we find a better solution. I’m not really sure what to do with them, but I know they are God’s children, they stay. It is three days later and the littlest one looks up and she calls me ‘mummy’. My hear breaks in two, I have no idea what to do, but something clicks. I am even more scared than the day I stepped on that plane but I know that this is right. Today I have fourteen.”
“I get a lot of: ‘do you really feel like they’re you’re children’, do you really feel like they’re you’re family’? I say ‘you come over for dinner and you tell me’, because it is, it is our family.”
“People say to me, all the time, ‘wow you are so lucky that you found what God wants’ you to do with your life’. I kind of look at those people and say ‘well I didn’t, I didn’t find it was just in the Bible’. So as someone who calls themselves a Christian it’s very apparent that you are to love the Lord with all your heart and love your neighbour as yourself. And I’m like, myself doesn’t want to be starving, I don’t want other people in the world to be starving.”
“Jesus does not ask that we care for the less fortunate, he demands it. When calling ourselves Christ-followers, caring for orphans and the dissolute and the widow are not an option, it’s a requirement. I would like you to join me on this journey that is so far from over, and see what God will do next."