The Classroom That Became a City

When Katie Davis moved to Uganda at nineteen, she planned to teach kindergarten for a year. One year of service, one small classroom, one modest act of obedience. She could imagine that much. She could ask God for that much.

But God was not constrained by Katie's imagination.

Within months, she found herself unable to walk past hungry children on her way to school. She started a feeding program. Then a sponsorship ministry. Then, at twenty-two years old, she adopted thirteen Ugandan daughters. Her one-year teaching stint became Amazima Ministries, which today sponsors over seven hundred children, provides education, medical care, and job training, and has transformed entire communities in the Ugandan countryside.

Katie once wrote that she never had a five-year plan. She simply said yes to the next thing God placed in front of her, and each yes opened a door she never knew existed.