[citation needed] While there she did mission work in the city of Jinja on the shores of Lake Victoria,[5] which had a population of approximately 75,000 at the time. [5] As of 2016, the organization was managing the sponsorships of 600 through its Scholarship Program, and was providing medical care to more than 4300. Katie Davis Majors and her husband, Benji, are the parents of 13 adopted daughters and two sons. [2] The work led to founding of a school and to provision of other services in Jinja, which now operate under the auspices of the Tennessee-based not-for-profit, Amazima Ministries International (AMI), where "amazima" means "truth" in Lugandan. Davis couldn’t find any living relatives willing to take the girls and couldn’t imagine sending them to the orphanage, so she took them in. [13], As of October 2012, Amazima was staffed by a dozen Ugandans and operating on a $700,000 annual budget, providing daily meals to about 2,000 children and managing the sponsorship of about 500 students. Their daughters were even Davis’ bridesmaids. “At first I was hesitant, but while Benji was patient, God was faithfully working on my heart. Additionally, she is the author of Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption which chronicles her amazing call and obedience to God and to Uganda, and Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful. She also noted the workers in orphanages are always changing. [verification needed][citation needed][6] She states in her writing that she fell in love with the Ugandan people and their culture, and decided to go back to Uganda in the summer of 2007 (after graduating from high school). You could earn up to $8,000 in scholarships throughout your college career by joining Texas Right to Life’s Dr. Joseph Graham Fellowship program and helping lead an on-campus pro-life group! The youngest was actually given to Davis by an HIV-positive mother of 12. At 23 years old, most people are just starting to think about settling down— if that’s on their minds at all— but by 23 years old Katie Davis had already adopted not one but thirteen daughters. Davis, at 19, was teaching kindergarten at Canaan Children's Home, an orphanage in Jinja. [3][12] As of October 2011, Amazima was being described as, an organization based in Jinja that sponsors Ugandan school children, provides vocational opportunities for poor Ugandans, and distributes food and health care services to the families of more than 1,600 children in Masese, a nearby slum. In fact, the girls love Benji just as much as Katie does. [18] The Majors gave birth to a son, Noah, in 2016, and were still living in Jinja as of 2018.[2][15][18]. However, after experiencing the Ugandan culture, Davis decided she couldn't not do something to help. But knowing there [was] nowhere else for them to go, I [didn't] find myself capable of sending them away. To find out more about Amazima Ministries visit their website. [1][third-party source needed] In addition to managing sponsorships and vocational opportunities, and distributing food and health care,[13][12] Amazima established a farming outreach program,[12] and a specific program to sell the paper and glass bead jewelry manufactured by Ugandans in its Masese Beading Circle to customers in the United States and elsewhere. Katie Davis Majors and her husband, Benji, are the parents of 13 adopted daughters and two sons. [4][16][17], As of July 2011, one local child welfare officer, Caroline Bankusha, had publicly expressed concern over the planned adoption, stating, "Unless the children are placed under a children's ministry or children's home, which she [could] start... it is really bad for someone to have more than five children". She married in 2015, and she and her husband live in Jinja, in care of 15 Ugandan children. [13][3][needs update] As of October 2017, she describes in interview as having "lost a child to an unfair system", and to be in care of fourteen children. Before the mission trip she had won homecoming queen in her hometown of Brentwood, Tennessee and was planning to attend nursing school. [7][third-party source needed] The name chosen, "Amazima", means "Truth" in the native Lugandan language in that area of Uganda. [citation needed] In Brentwood, Tennessee,[3] Davis was a homecoming queen of her high school, and a class president. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katie_Davis_(missionary)&oldid=981160538, Articles lacking reliable references from February 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2020, Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from February 2020, Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2020, All Wikipedia articles in need of updating, Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2020, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Pages using Infobox writer with unknown parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Christian missions, child-/family-centric. [3] Davis described her quandary, thus: My first instinct [was] not, 'Oh, a baby—let me adopt it!' [3] Bankusha, while noting the legislated 25-year-old minimum parental age, and the stipulation that parents be "at least 21 years older than the child being adopted", acknowledged that it was within the purview of the deciding judge to allow adoption exceptions were they to deem it as being in the children's best interests. [12], As of July 2011, Davis was employed as the director of Amazima, employment that she uses to support herself and those in her care. In 2016, their family expanded even more as Katie and Benji welcomed their first biological child, a son named Noah. Her life may seem crazy to some but Davis wouldn’t change a thing because she knows this is what God called her to do. [3] The collapse, near where she was working in Jinja,[5] led Davis to seek out relatives of the girls to take them in, and failing that, to have them live with her (rather than being consigned to the already overcrowded orphanage). In fact, Ugandan law states a person must be 25 and at least 21 years older than the child to adopt. Little did she know, she would soon meet 13 amazing girls who would change her life forever. Today, Katie lives in Uganda with her husband and 14 children (who now range from 2 to 22) and together they run a non-profit organization she founded called Amazima Ministries (amazima means “truth” in the local language). As of 2009–2010, Davis and Amazima had initiated the Masese Feeding Program serving 1200, as well as the Masese Beading Circle,[1][third-party source needed] for this Jinja District community in a fishing region on Lake Victoria.

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