At a glance: this is a 16-week study and discussion guide for Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis Majors, with 99 questions organized by reading assignment. Week 1 is free to read, with no card required.
Kisses from Katie is the remarkable true story of Katie Davis, a homecoming queen from Brentwood, Tennessee, who at eighteen years old traveled to Uganda for a short mission trip — and never really came home. By the age of twenty-two, she had adopted fourteen Ugandan daughters and founded Amazima Ministries, a organization sponsoring hundreds of children's education and running a feeding program for Uganda's poorest citizens. But this is not simply an inspiring story about an extraordinary young woman. At its heart, Kisses from Katie is a book about what happens when an ordinary person takes Jesus at his word — and discovers that the life surrendered to God is far more beautiful, and far more costly, than anything she could have planned for herself. Katie's central conviction, repeated in different forms throughout the book, is that we are not called to change the whole world, but to change the world for one person at a time, and that in doing so, we are changed ourselves.
This study guide is designed to be used week by week, one chapter at a time, either in a small group or in personal study. The ideal rhythm is: read the assigned chapter during the week, journal your honest reactions to the discussion questions before your group meets (or before you sit down to reflect alone), and then pray through the closing prayer — letting it move from your head into your heart. Don't rush. Some chapters will unsettle you. That is intentional. Katie's story has a way of holding up a mirror to our comfortable assumptions about faith, sacrifice, family, and what it means to follow Jesus.
By the end of this guide, you will not simply know Katie's story better — you will have been invited, repeatedly, to examine your own. You will have wrestled with questions about radical obedience, the nature of the family God forms, the relationship between grief and joy, and what it looks like to say yes to God in the ordinary moments of your own life and neighborhood. You may not be called to Uganda. But you are called somewhere, to someone. This book — and this guide — exists to help you figure out where and to whom.