Highlights from the Show:

• Katie says her favorite way to keep things simple is to get rid of unnecessary stuff. She also shares about how she believes it's important to make life more about relationships. Don’t worry about if your house is perfect before you have guests over or don’t worry about cooking elaborate meals. All those things can be beautiful and God-ordained, but it can also be a hindrance. God chose relationship every time.

•  Katie tells the story of how she ended up staying in Uganda after traveling there to teach Kindergarten for a semester. She shares about the family dynamic in Uganda. So many families have to send their children to work at a very young age.

• 80% of children living in institutions (such as orphanages) in Uganda have at least one living parent. —Katie Davis Majors

•  Orphans are being created because of poverty. —Katie Davis Majors

•  Katie shares how Amazima Ministries was born, and about the new school, a high school, that was opened this year.

• Katie has adopted fourteen daughters from Uganda. She shares a little about that process.

• Katie shares about writing Kisses for Katie and becoming a NYT Bestselling author (and why she swore she'd never write again)!

• Katie shares a little about her friend, Bob Goff who endorses her new book.

• Why did Katie decide to write a follow up to Kisses from Katie? She shares a little of the story and her journey to book two.

• It was a hidden season that I pulled back from all the hype from Kisses from Katie. — Katie Davis Majors

•  These things aren’t just for you. It’s time to share with the world. —Katie Davis Majors

•  I sat down to write, and God just gave me the words. —Katie Davis Majors

•  At the beginning of Daring to Hope, Katie tells about the tragedy that really shook her faith and ultimately inspired the title of her new book. I ask Katie to share a little about this tragedy and what God's answer was to her pleas.

• He is the same God now that He was then. —Katie Davis Majors

•  Katie shares about the times when she saw God say “No”, and the hurt that came with that.

• He has purpose in all things. —Katie Davis Majors

•  Our stories aren’t meant to begin and end here on earth. —Kristi Clover

•  Throughout Katie’s book, she pulls stories from the Bible and makes them applicable to today. She shares a little about God speaking to her through these stories and weaving them through her Daring to Hope.

• Psalm 63:3

• Katie shares a little about what her daily life is like in Uganda.

• My ministry right now is a stay-at-home mom. —Katie Davis Majors

•  Katie shares more about the difficulties of raising fourteen children.

• They are the people that I am called to pour into and disciple. —Katie Davis Majors

•  At the end of the interview, I asked Katie if there was anything that we, on this side of the globe, could lift up in prayer for her.

Resources:

• Episode #27 with Kristin Schell 
• Kisses from Katie
• Daring to Hope
• Sanity Savers for Moms
• Free e-version of Sanity Savers for Moms HERE: kristiclover.com/join
• Covenant Eyes  
• Audible 

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