Comments on: Now on the Red Carpet: Katie Davis

By: dragop21

dragop21 — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 01:09:00 +0000

seriously? it was never EVER God’s design to have an INFANT taken from their mother. what on earth???
Secondly, you have zero clue about how your mother is doing (as I assume since your life was all butterflies and unicorns), you can’t speak to her pain about placing you and not having a clue how you were doing. Do you have no respect for your childs mother either? what if she wants to know her origins? will you take it personally?
Adoption means something got screwed up and humans make the best of the situation. not that another woman birthed a child for YOU or your parents.

By: Carla Weynen

Carla Weynen — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:33:00 +0000

I have just finished reading ‘Kisses from Katie’ and I loved it!!!! God is so amazing!!!!! I too have a heart for working with young children in Africa. I believe God has been slowly preparing me for this work. Soon I will be serving in Africa, but only when God knows I am ready. I do feel this time is getting very close. I pray that I do as well as Katie as she is inspirational & a fantastic role model for me, as a mother and qualified early child care teacher. Bless you Katie & all the beautiful people of Uganda.

Hugs & prayers from Carla (New Zealand)

By: Patty

Patty — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 17:50:00 +0000

I so admire what you have done and how you live your life. However, as an adoptee and an adopted mom I have to respectfully disagree with a few of your views. It is wonderful that you can keep your children in their culture around the family they have always known. So many more adoptions should involve older children and that does involve different things like where they grew up and people they know. But not all circumstances are ideal and there are too many older kids in orphanages that are not the best places to be. A complete change is alright for them, even needed. There are also many babies that are placed every year. I was an infant and being brought up in my adoptive family was wonderful- we did not talk about my biological family or need to. I was “starting fresh”(as it were) and my psycy was not damaged. My daughter was just six weeks old and we are her family- her bios, like mine, are strangers.
I do believe God has a plan and sometimes He has ordained that one woman give birth for another family. We have a destiny and God puts us where we should be. Some people God wants to adopt internationally, some domestically and some knowing their bios and some not. I don’t want anyone to feel they are not meant to adopt internationally and bring the children back to live in the US, or to have an open adoption or not. We all have to listen to God and be willing to go where He leads. He has given you an incredible task that you are living out but let’s not take away from what God wants from all of us. It’s all different but all in His design. He has called some of us to serve by adoption. He has called some to be single, some to marry, some to serve as missionaries in foreign lands and others here in our own communities. We all just need to listen to what He wants from us.
God bless you and all you do!

By: Gary Holland

Gary Holland — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:13:00 +0000

When I read about Katie’s new family I am always reminded of a famous film by Franco Zeffirelli: Brother Sun, Sister Moon. Have you seen it? A common middle-class fellow sees poor, homeless people, leaves his easy life and sets out to feed and care for them (to the horror of his family. Deja vous, Katie?) His name was Francis. Didn’t Katie do the same thing? Both speak to my heart, repeating James 1:27, where the Holy Spirit says “Pure religion is…” In this tiny scripture I’m realizing we have not a suggestion, but a commandment. Well, isn’t it? It tells me how to know for certain, without the usual nagging doubt, that I’m making my Father happy. Church doesn’t always do that. In fact, when I visit the orphanages in Haiti, Vietnam and China, I feel Him stronger than my best day in church. I feel His pleasure, that warm wind blowing inside of me and outward again when I hold the children. My daughter and I want so badly to adopt, but encounter problems with bureaucracy, being a single male. I wait…But in the meantime I can paint the children and encourage others through my art and stories. If I can’t (yet) take a child into our home, I can at least support Katie today. Attached are some images of my orphan paintings. May they inspire you to reach out to Katie.

By: lindsey lacasse

lindsey lacasse — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:49:00 +0000

What a stupid cunt

By: Courtney Raibon

Courtney Raibon — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:06:00 +0000

Way to go Katie! Such a blessing to so many!

By: 2theNations

2theNations — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:34:00 +0000

I love Katie’s story. Her book Kisses from Katie is changing/challenging lives across the nation! Her story/life reminds me of a friend I have in Honduras who did the same thing in her early 20s and now has 22 girls who call her mom!! Her name is Allison and her ministry there is called Eternal Family Project. Similar, yet uniquely (God ordained) different. (Ironically, Katie and Allison are both from Tennessee?!)

By: Janelle

Janelle — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 05:00:00 +0000

“Be imitators of God…” I love how Katie always points us to God.

By: Wall-e

Wall-e — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:54:00 +0000

Beautiful

By: Nanaverm

Nanaverm — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:57:00 +0000

Katie’s explanation of the superiority of in-country raising of adoptive children convicted me. I was considering that trans-country adoptions would help save the child from poverty. But I was only considering the financial angle of poverty, and not the difficulty of maintaining any connection with the child’s roots and larger family. Not to mention the difficulty for the child having to adopt to a completely different culture and possibly language.