{"id":303307,"date":"2014-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/jesus-wrecked-my-life\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:00:00","slug":"jesus-wrecked-my-life","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/jesus-wrecked-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Wrecked My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen-year-old Katie Davis had a desire to go and serve the children of Uganda for a season before college.  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I think it meant a <em>significant<\/em> alteration in my lifestyle. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, December 15<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will meet a remarkable young woman today who has done remarkable things in her life all because of her faith in a big God. Stay tuned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I think I can safely say that this is the first time we have ever interviewed a 25-year-old single woman who is a mother of 13; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I think that\u2019d be safe to say. [Laughter] I think she\u2019s surprised that it happened too. Katie Davis joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Finally, Katie, we arranged to get you here; and it worked out for your schedule. Thanks for coming all the way from Uganda\u2014and caring for the 13 children you are in the process of adopting\u2014and joining us, here on the broadcast. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. Thank you for having me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>She\u2019s written a book called <em>Kisses from Katie<\/em>. We\u2019re going to cut right to the chase. I want you to take us to that first kindergarten class, where you were supposed to teach 12 kindergarten children\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014and you arrived\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014and that wasn\u2019t who showed up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>[Laughter] No, I had committed to teach kindergarten for a year in Uganda with a pastor who ran an orphanage there and who was very excited\u2014came to Uganda with two packs of construction paper and a couple of boxes of crayons and thought, \u201cYes, I can do this.\u201d\u00a0 <br><br>I showed up, and they had turned an old barn into a classroom. I thought, \u201cI was going in to teach a couple of students\u201412, maybe 15. I had Oliver, my translator, with me who turned into a great friend. It seemed, on that first day of kindergarten, that every child between the age of three and seven or eight had decided, \u201cLet\u2019s go to kindergarten!\u201d\u00a0 And so, the classroom was just packed full of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Not 12. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Over a hundred\u2014no, no\u2014I think it was 130 something that were there in the building\u2014and just all their little brown eyes\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014just excited \/ excited to learn\u2014some amazed by a white lady in their classroom \/ some kind of looking very <em>afraid <\/em>of the white lady in their classroom. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You were how old?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Eighteen\u2014I was eighteen years old. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And you, of course, were fluent in the native tongue of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No!\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>No?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. I remember\u2014the national language in Uganda is English. So, one of the goals of going to school is for your children to learn English; and you start that in kindergarten. So, I remember picking up a ball and saying over and over again [slowly and distinctly]: \u201cThis is a ball. This is a ball.\u201d\u00a0 They would all go and say [with Ugandan accent]: \u201cThis is a ball. This is a ball.\u201d\u00a0 We had gone through the <em>whole<\/em> day of school; and we had learned many, many words. At the end of the day, this one little girl came up to me with her pencil. She said [with Ugandan accent], \u201cTeacher, this is a ball.\u201d\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 I was like, \u201cOh, no! That is a pencil!\u201d\u00a0 [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThis is not going well!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Let me take you back two years before that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Okay. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>On your 16<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, that\u2019s when you first had a sense that you might want to spend some part of your life overseas; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. It was something that I had\u2014you\u2019ve been kind of dreaming about in the way that you\u2019re young and you dream about these things that will probably never happen. \u201cOne day, I will travel to all the countries of the world\u201d\u2014you think that. You also realize that it might not happen. It was something I had been dreaming about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think by the time I was 16 I was working downtown at a halfway house in Nashville, where women came to after rehab to get their children back from foster care and kind of rebuild their lives. I <em>loved<\/em> to go down there and just be with them. I loved to babysit their children so that they could go to their meetings or do different stuff. And so, I think that really grew in me a love for serving people. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had begun to feel like, \u201cI\u2019d love to do something like this overseas.\u201d\u00a0 And so, I thought, \u201cOh, my parents might not love this idea,\u201d but I remember asking them on my 16<sup>th<\/sup> birthday\u2014we\u2019d gone out to dinner\u2014that was kind of our family thing. You got to choose where you wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kind of brought it up and said, \u201cHey, you know, I was thinking, maybe after high school, instead of going straight to college, I could kind of take a year and just go somewhere\u2014travel overseas \/ do some mission work.\u201d\u00a0 They just kind of looked at me like, \u201cOh. Well\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 They kind of\u2014they didn\u2019t immediately discourage it. They were kind of like: \u201cWell, you know, college\u2014probably that\u2019s the best idea\u2014but we could look into it. We can see. We\u2019ll talk about it more.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t think we made any decisions that day, but I went home excited about that and started looking up places online: \u201cWhere could we go?\u00a0 Where could we serve?\u00a0 How could I get involved?\u00a0 What kind of ministry would I want to get involved with?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How did you settle on Uganda?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>You know, honestly, I looked online. I didn\u2019t feel specifically called to Uganda, or to Africa, or to anywhere really. I just felt called to serve people. So, I looked online and found several different orphanages\u2014and emailed orphanages in all different countries\u2014and said: \u201cI would like to come and visit. I would like to help. I will change diapers. I will wipe noses. I will mop floors. I will do whatever. I\u2019d just like to come serve.\u201d\u00a0 <br><br>I got emails back from several of them. One place was an orphanage in Uganda. They just did a really great job communicating. They had this great volunteer coordinator at the time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said, \u201cYes, you can come. We accept volunteers of all ages for any different time periods.\u201d So, I went to my mom and said: \u201cMom! Do you want to go with me to Uganda over Christmas break?!\u201d\u00a0 And my mom said, \u201cWell, maybe.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Your mom and dad were hoping this would just wear off; weren\u2019t they?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Sure!\u00a0 Yes, and I think they even thought, \u201cWell, maybe, if we let her go over Christmas break\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cshe\u2019ll get it out of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cshe\u2019ll get it out of her system.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes. Yes; sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>And they said, \u201cYou need to find an adult who will go with you.\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cOkay, but I want to go over my Christmas break.\u201d\u00a0 There were great adults in our church and supportive people around me, but they weren\u2019t going to leave their families at Christmas and go travel to the other side of the planet. So, I remember just finally begging my mom\u2014and I get her to come sit next to me on the computer. I\u2019d show her these pictures of the children at the orphanage. Mom loves people and loves children and used to volunteer downtown with me and used to volunteer at the church with me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, it wasn\u2019t\u2014it wasn\u2019t like it was <em>super<\/em> difficult to convince her to come. So, that was my present\u2014that was my Christmas gift from my mom was\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ll go with you.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>\u2014two pink suitcases and her presence to come with me to Uganda. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And so, when you went there and you got off the plane, did you already have a spot you were headed toward?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes, we did. We had communicated with this orphanage, and they took short-term volunteers. They were very kind and very accommodating. So, we went and we signed up to volunteer at this orphanage for three weeks over Christmas break. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI do think my parents had, in the back of their minds: \u201cWell, maybe, this will get it out of her system. This will be this overseas mission trip, and she\u2019ll feel like, \u2018Yes, I did the overseas thing.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they thought that I would just\u2014I mean\u2014I was just taken. I was absolutely just in love with everything\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014the color, and the language, and the people, and the simplicity of life, and just all of it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We should explain\u2014you were a pretty typical normal 17-year-old high school student, at this point in time. You were president of your class; is that right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You were homecoming queen?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You drove a yellow convertible?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You liked shopping for clothes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. Yes. Pretty\u2014I mean, you could say just an average high school girl. I liked high school life. I liked football games. I liked having my friends sleep over. I liked to go to the mall. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was doing\u2014I mean, I think, early on, the Lord had grown in me a heart for people that my parents really encouraged and taught me to be kind to people, and taught me to love people, and taught me that there were people less fortunate. So, there were days where I would say: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cHey, high school friends, do you want to come with me to the homeless shelter this weekend?\u201d They would say, \u2018No.\u2019\u201d [Laughter] I would say: \u201cOkay! Well, that\u2019s where I\u2019m going to be this weekend,\u201d\u2014but I had that\u2014I had a heart for people, and I loved people\u2014but I also very much loved my comfortable lifestyle and where I was at, and I\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>To that point, you say in the book that Jesus wrecked your life. You blame Him for all this. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Absolutely!\u00a0 I think faith in Him sustained me through high school and was instrumental in the decisions\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Katie: <\/strong>\u2014I made\u2014but I remember being in Uganda and wrestling with \u201cOh, You\u2019re asking me to be all the way\u2014all the way\u2014all the way in.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe for everyone\u2014to be all the way in\u2014means you have to move to this other country\u2014but for me, that\u2019s what it meant. I think it meant a <em>significant<\/em> alteration in my lifestyle. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And I think what folks need to realize, as you read the New Testament\u2014if you really get to know Jesus Christ\u2014He may not call you to go to Uganda, but He will wreck your life. He will cause you to deny yourself\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Absolutely. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014to pick up your cross and follow Him daily. I think, sometimes, we\u2019ve kind of put a soft sale on Christianity and our Savior. He comes to take over\u2014to transform \/ to <em>radically<\/em> make an impact in our lives. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes, absolutely. So, the director of the orphanage we were volunteering at introduced me to this pastor, who was the director of a different orphanage of 120 children\u2014all ages. The youngest was four, and the oldest was eighteen. He was short-staffed, and he didn\u2019t have enough help. He wanted to start this school, and he wanted to start this kindergarten program. He had a couple local teachers that were going to help him out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cI feel like the Lord is saying that you are coming back; and you\u2019re going to work here, and you are going to teach kindergarten.\u201d\u00a0 I remember, when he said that to me, I was like: \u201cWell, I\u2019m here for a few weeks. I\u2019m going to go home and finish high school. So, we will keep in touch\u2014[Laughter]\u2014I will let you know if the Lord causes me to also feel that way.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I went home and finished high school\u2014and would look at the clock, like during high school classes, and think: \u201cOkay, what time is it in Uganda?\u00a0 Okay, the kids are going to bed,\u201d or, \u201cThe kids are waking up,\u201d\u2014and would just replay, in my mind, what their routine was like: They would wake up, they would brush their teeth, they would get porridge for breakfast before they would go to school\u2014and just was doing high school classes but was living, in my head, in this different world that I just couldn\u2019t shake. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, wait. Weren\u2019t you\u2014all your friends were talking about \u201cWe\u2019re going to UT next year,\u201d or \u201cWe\u2019re\u2026\u201d I\u2019m sure there were guys asking you out on dates, and some of them were cute; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>One of them was very cute!\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, so, I\u2019m sure you were thinking about what life would be like if you stayed here\u2014and some of that had to be alluring and attractive. I mean, go to the UT games with cute guys\u2014that\u2019s not a bad thing; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. Yes, it was\u2014I would not be honest if I said: \u201cYes, it was easy. I just thought, \u2018I\u2019ll move to Uganda.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 It was difficult; and there were times when I thought, \u201cAm I making the right choice?\u201d\u00a0 I remember leaving and saying goodbye to good friends and sweet people when I had decided, \u201cYes, I will go back to Uganda for a year.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Katie, your parents\u2014when you were 16 and you said, \u201cI might want to go to another country at some point,\u201d\u2014they were not sure what to think of that. When you were 17 and said: \u201cThat\u2019s what I want to do for Christmas. Will you go with me, Mom?\u201d\u2014your mom kind of went, reluctantly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, you are saying, \u201cI think I want to spend a year in Uganda and put off school for a year.\u201d\u00a0 Did your mom and dad warm up to this?\u00a0 Or did it take them a while to be able to say, \u201cYes, this is okay, and we\u2019ll support you in this\u201d?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>They were always supportive. They also, though, out of love, really wanted what was best for me and really thought: \u201cWell, in order to be successful and have a good life and be comfortable, you\u2019re going to need to go to college. You\u2019re going to need to have your degree to secure a good job.\u201d So, they really said: \u201cOkay, you go for a year, but no more. Then, you come back and you do school and you make sure that you have this good future in place.\u201d\u00a0 They were just looking out for me in the best way that they knew how. They wanted good things for me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy dad said, \u201cWell, you can\u2019t go live for a year in a place that I have never been.\u201d\u00a0 So, very reluctantly, he got on a plane when I was moving to Uganda in August. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cI\u2019m coming with you for the first week.\u201d\u00a0 I think he spent that first that they were there kind of trying to convince me: \u201cYou cannot do this. You will come home with me. Are you sure that you don\u2019t want to come home with me when the week is over?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes, all the dads, who are listening right now\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019m not\u2026\u201d\u2014in my head, I\u2019m going, \u201cI want to go check this place out\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cbefore I\u2019m leaving my 18-year-old daughter in Africa for a year.\u201d\u00a0 Yes; absolutely!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I mean, the daddy\u2019s love\u2014there is nothing that can compare to it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No; and as an 18-year-old, I didn\u2019t get that\u2014but, as a parent, I go: \u201cHow did you let me do that?!\u201d\u00a0 I did not understand at all on that side of parenting. I mean, I remember the tears in my mom\u2019s eyes as we got on the plane. I remember the tears in my dad\u2019s eyes as he realized, at the end of the week: \u201cYou\u2019re not coming home with me. You\u2019re going to stay here for the year.\u201d\u00a0 That was a huge sacrifice for them to say: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWe love you enough to say, \u2018We don\u2019t really understand why this is what you want to do\u2019; but we love you enough to say, \u2018Okay, you can do it.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You know, it\u2019s interesting, Katie, the number one obstacle to a graduating college senior, coming on Cru staff\u2014which is an organization that recruits a lot of collegians to ministry around the world\u2014the number one obstacle\u2014parents. They are the ones that don\u2019t get it. To me, it\u2019s fascinating that you are not the only one being called to a step of faith\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014that, in the midst of that, the parents are called to put their own belief in the Bible and relationship with Christ on the line as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you\u2019d spent a few months in Uganda, you sat down one day\u2014in fact, you write about it in your book\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s Saturday, September 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 2007.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou must have been there long enough that you were, not only overwhelmed with the living conditions, but also with the needs of human beings\u2014not just a few\u2014<em>thousands<\/em> of human beings in a country ravaged by HIV, AIDS, factions of war, and all kinds of unrest. Share with our listeners what you wrote on that day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie:<\/strong> Sometimes, working in a third-world country makes me feel like I\u2019m \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\temptying the ocean with an eye dropper. And just when I have about half a cup of water, it rains. More orphaned children, from the north, migrate to where I live\u2014more abandoned and dead babies are found, more people are infected with HIV. It is enough to discourage even the most enthusiastic and passionate person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd yet, the discouragement lasts only a moment. God tells me to keep going\u2014that He loves me \/ that He loves these people\u2014that He will never leave or forsake any of us\u2014<em>not one<\/em>\u2014and my work is \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tImportant to Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI spent the day at the wedding of my friend, Lydia. It was a beautiful celebration, not only of the love two people can have for each other, but also of the love God has for us. At the reception, there was a cake, and singing, and dancing just as there would be at any American wedding. One thing that wasn\u2019t like an American wedding, though, was the congregation of street children, at the gate, all longing to join the party inside. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI immediately felt suffocated inside the gates of the extravagant party. So, for most of the reception, you could find me outside with the raggedy, dirty street children\u2014dancing, and laughing, and cuddling. Most people didn\u2019t like that I was associating with these children\u2014the outcasts of society. Many of the fancily-dressed guests at the wedding even came and told me that I probably shouldn\u2019t associate with these children\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tlet alone kiss them and let them bury their faces in my hair. \u201cThey\u2019re street children,\u201d the people would say as if it was some kind of sin\u2014as if the children could help it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe had so much fun, though. The children ate up every bit of attention I could give\u2014danced as close to me as they possibly could and lavished me with love. We spun and laughed until we ached and had to collapse in the grass outside of the place where the reception was taking place. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThose who had been shy at first ended up snuggled close to my side, petting my hair or kissing my hands. The smallest ones fell asleep in my lap despite the blaring music from the wedding. Those who could speak English wanted to know all about me and thanked me, unnecessarily, for spending time with them. They were so happy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI can\u2019t describe the new light in their eyes after all of our dancing. It\u2019s that light\u2014it\u2019s that happiness \/ it\u2019s that love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDarling Emily, a little girl from the orphanage, is snuggled against my chest, fast asleep. And I can feel her heart beating against mine\u2014it\u2019s that beat, it\u2019s that warmth, it\u2019s that love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eye dropper\u2014keep filling it up and emptying my ocean, one drop at a time. I\u2019m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies\u2014I\u2019m just here to love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>When I read that\u2014[emotion in voice] and maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve gone to some orphanages myself and visited these children and seen the faces\u2014I was reminded of a great statement made by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He said, \u201cThere are two kinds of problems in life\u2014those that are far away and those that are near.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I think for the Christian\u2014for the follower of Jesus Christ\u2014we are commanded to go near\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014the orphan and the widow in their affliction. It is pure and undefiled religion, and that\u2019s what you experienced as you danced in the grass,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014outside the gates, with the real party taking place out there instead of at the reception. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And of course, you had no idea, as you were sitting with those children, that you would share your story\u2014that it would become a New York Times bestseller. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong><em>Glamour Magazine<\/em> would name you the 2012 Woman of the Year\u2014all because you said, \u201cI want to go be near these kids and just love them.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have copies of your book in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. I\u2019d encourage our listeners to go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFrom there, they can order a copy of the book, <em>Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption<\/em>. Again, the website, FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014click the link that says, \u201cGO DEEPER,\u201d to find Katie\u2019s book. <br><br>We also have a link there to Katie\u2019s website. If you\u2019d like to find out more about the work she\u2019s doing in Africa\u2014like to help support what she\u2019s doing\u2014you can do that as well. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com. You\u2019ll find the information you need available there. Or you can call to order the book, <em>Kisses from Katie<\/em>. The toll-free number is 1-800- \u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, I\u2019m thinking about the work that FamilyLife has done over the last decade in helping to raise awareness of the needs of orphans all around the world. Dennis, I\u2019m really thinking of the folks who helped make all of that possible through their financial support of this ministry. We could not do what we do without our listeners making it all possible. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are listener-supported. More than 60 percent of the money that we need to operate this ministry comes from donations, from folks just like you. About half of that money comes in during the month of December\u2014that\u2019s why this is such a key month for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd fortunately, we\u2019ve had some friends of the ministry come along who have agreed to provide matching funds, here in December. They are going to match every donation our listeners send to us this month, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, up to a total of $2,000,000. Of course, we are grateful for their support; but if we are going to take advantage of those matching funds, we need listeners, like you, to go today to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cI Care,\u201d and make as generous a donation to support this ministry as you can possible make. Again, the website, FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014or you can call to make a donation at 1-800-FL-TODAY\u2014and you can always mail your donation to us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur address is: <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR: and our zip code is 72223. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to hear about Katie Davis\u2019s move to Africa and about what happened four months in when she thought, \u201cDo I really want to be here?\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ll hear that story tomorrow. I hope you can tune in for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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I want you to take us to that first kindergarten class, where you were supposed to teach 12 kindergarten children\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014and you arrived\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014and that wasn\u2019t who showed up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>[Laughter] No, I had committed to teach kindergarten for a year in Uganda with a pastor who ran an orphanage there and who was very excited\u2014came to Uganda with two packs of construction paper and a couple of boxes of crayons and thought, \u201cYes, I can do this.\u201d\u00a0 <br><br>I showed up, and they had turned an old barn into a classroom. I thought, \u201cI was going in to teach a couple of students\u201412, maybe 15. I had Oliver, my translator, with me who turned into a great friend. It seemed, on that first day of kindergarten, that every child between the age of three and seven or eight had decided, \u201cLet\u2019s go to kindergarten!\u201d\u00a0 And so, the classroom was just packed full of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Not 12. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Over a hundred\u2014no, no\u2014I think it was 130 something that were there in the building\u2014and just all their little brown eyes\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014just excited \/ excited to learn\u2014some amazed by a white lady in their classroom \/ some kind of looking very <em>afraid <\/em>of the white lady in their classroom. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You were how old?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Eighteen\u2014I was eighteen years old. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And you, of course, were fluent in the native tongue of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No!\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>No?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. I remember\u2014the national language in Uganda is English. So, one of the goals of going to school is for your children to learn English; and you start that in kindergarten. So, I remember picking up a ball and saying over and over again [slowly and distinctly]: \u201cThis is a ball. This is a ball.\u201d\u00a0 They would all go and say [with Ugandan accent]: \u201cThis is a ball. This is a ball.\u201d\u00a0 We had gone through the <em>whole<\/em> day of school; and we had learned many, many words. At the end of the day, this one little girl came up to me with her pencil. She said [with Ugandan accent], \u201cTeacher, this is a ball.\u201d\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 I was like, \u201cOh, no! That is a pencil!\u201d\u00a0 [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThis is not going well!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Let me take you back two years before that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Okay. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>On your 16<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, that\u2019s when you first had a sense that you might want to spend some part of your life overseas; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. It was something that I had\u2014you\u2019ve been kind of dreaming about in the way that you\u2019re young and you dream about these things that will probably never happen. \u201cOne day, I will travel to all the countries of the world\u201d\u2014you think that. You also realize that it might not happen. It was something I had been dreaming about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think by the time I was 16 I was working downtown at a halfway house in Nashville, where women came to after rehab to get their children back from foster care and kind of rebuild their lives. I <em>loved<\/em> to go down there and just be with them. I loved to babysit their children so that they could go to their meetings or do different stuff. And so, I think that really grew in me a love for serving people. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had begun to feel like, \u201cI\u2019d love to do something like this overseas.\u201d\u00a0 And so, I thought, \u201cOh, my parents might not love this idea,\u201d but I remember asking them on my 16<sup>th<\/sup> birthday\u2014we\u2019d gone out to dinner\u2014that was kind of our family thing. You got to choose where you wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kind of brought it up and said, \u201cHey, you know, I was thinking, maybe after high school, instead of going straight to college, I could kind of take a year and just go somewhere\u2014travel overseas \/ do some mission work.\u201d\u00a0 They just kind of looked at me like, \u201cOh. Well\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 They kind of\u2014they didn\u2019t immediately discourage it. They were kind of like: \u201cWell, you know, college\u2014probably that\u2019s the best idea\u2014but we could look into it. We can see. We\u2019ll talk about it more.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t think we made any decisions that day, but I went home excited about that and started looking up places online: \u201cWhere could we go?\u00a0 Where could we serve?\u00a0 How could I get involved?\u00a0 What kind of ministry would I want to get involved with?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How did you settle on Uganda?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>You know, honestly, I looked online. I didn\u2019t feel specifically called to Uganda, or to Africa, or to anywhere really. I just felt called to serve people. So, I looked online and found several different orphanages\u2014and emailed orphanages in all different countries\u2014and said: \u201cI would like to come and visit. I would like to help. I will change diapers. I will wipe noses. I will mop floors. I will do whatever. I\u2019d just like to come serve.\u201d\u00a0 <br><br>I got emails back from several of them. One place was an orphanage in Uganda. They just did a really great job communicating. They had this great volunteer coordinator at the time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said, \u201cYes, you can come. We accept volunteers of all ages for any different time periods.\u201d So, I went to my mom and said: \u201cMom! Do you want to go with me to Uganda over Christmas break?!\u201d\u00a0 And my mom said, \u201cWell, maybe.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Your mom and dad were hoping this would just wear off; weren\u2019t they?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Sure!\u00a0 Yes, and I think they even thought, \u201cWell, maybe, if we let her go over Christmas break\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cshe\u2019ll get it out of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cshe\u2019ll get it out of her system.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes. Yes; sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>And they said, \u201cYou need to find an adult who will go with you.\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cOkay, but I want to go over my Christmas break.\u201d\u00a0 There were great adults in our church and supportive people around me, but they weren\u2019t going to leave their families at Christmas and go travel to the other side of the planet. So, I remember just finally begging my mom\u2014and I get her to come sit next to me on the computer. I\u2019d show her these pictures of the children at the orphanage. Mom loves people and loves children and used to volunteer downtown with me and used to volunteer at the church with me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, it wasn\u2019t\u2014it wasn\u2019t like it was <em>super<\/em> difficult to convince her to come. So, that was my present\u2014that was my Christmas gift from my mom was\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ll go with you.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>\u2014two pink suitcases and her presence to come with me to Uganda. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And so, when you went there and you got off the plane, did you already have a spot you were headed toward?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes, we did. We had communicated with this orphanage, and they took short-term volunteers. They were very kind and very accommodating. So, we went and we signed up to volunteer at this orphanage for three weeks over Christmas break. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI do think my parents had, in the back of their minds: \u201cWell, maybe, this will get it out of her system. This will be this overseas mission trip, and she\u2019ll feel like, \u2018Yes, I did the overseas thing.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they thought that I would just\u2014I mean\u2014I was just taken. I was absolutely just in love with everything\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014the color, and the language, and the people, and the simplicity of life, and just all of it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We should explain\u2014you were a pretty typical normal 17-year-old high school student, at this point in time. You were president of your class; is that right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You were homecoming queen?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You drove a yellow convertible?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You liked shopping for clothes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. Yes. Pretty\u2014I mean, you could say just an average high school girl. I liked high school life. I liked football games. I liked having my friends sleep over. I liked to go to the mall. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was doing\u2014I mean, I think, early on, the Lord had grown in me a heart for people that my parents really encouraged and taught me to be kind to people, and taught me to love people, and taught me that there were people less fortunate. So, there were days where I would say: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cHey, high school friends, do you want to come with me to the homeless shelter this weekend?\u201d They would say, \u2018No.\u2019\u201d [Laughter] I would say: \u201cOkay! Well, that\u2019s where I\u2019m going to be this weekend,\u201d\u2014but I had that\u2014I had a heart for people, and I loved people\u2014but I also very much loved my comfortable lifestyle and where I was at, and I\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>To that point, you say in the book that Jesus wrecked your life. You blame Him for all this. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Absolutely!\u00a0 I think faith in Him sustained me through high school and was instrumental in the decisions\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Katie: <\/strong>\u2014I made\u2014but I remember being in Uganda and wrestling with \u201cOh, You\u2019re asking me to be all the way\u2014all the way\u2014all the way in.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe for everyone\u2014to be all the way in\u2014means you have to move to this other country\u2014but for me, that\u2019s what it meant. I think it meant a <em>significant<\/em> alteration in my lifestyle. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And I think what folks need to realize, as you read the New Testament\u2014if you really get to know Jesus Christ\u2014He may not call you to go to Uganda, but He will wreck your life. He will cause you to deny yourself\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Absolutely. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014to pick up your cross and follow Him daily. I think, sometimes, we\u2019ve kind of put a soft sale on Christianity and our Savior. He comes to take over\u2014to transform \/ to <em>radically<\/em> make an impact in our lives. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes, absolutely. So, the director of the orphanage we were volunteering at introduced me to this pastor, who was the director of a different orphanage of 120 children\u2014all ages. The youngest was four, and the oldest was eighteen. He was short-staffed, and he didn\u2019t have enough help. He wanted to start this school, and he wanted to start this kindergarten program. He had a couple local teachers that were going to help him out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cI feel like the Lord is saying that you are coming back; and you\u2019re going to work here, and you are going to teach kindergarten.\u201d\u00a0 I remember, when he said that to me, I was like: \u201cWell, I\u2019m here for a few weeks. I\u2019m going to go home and finish high school. So, we will keep in touch\u2014[Laughter]\u2014I will let you know if the Lord causes me to also feel that way.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I went home and finished high school\u2014and would look at the clock, like during high school classes, and think: \u201cOkay, what time is it in Uganda?\u00a0 Okay, the kids are going to bed,\u201d or, \u201cThe kids are waking up,\u201d\u2014and would just replay, in my mind, what their routine was like: They would wake up, they would brush their teeth, they would get porridge for breakfast before they would go to school\u2014and just was doing high school classes but was living, in my head, in this different world that I just couldn\u2019t shake. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, wait. Weren\u2019t you\u2014all your friends were talking about \u201cWe\u2019re going to UT next year,\u201d or \u201cWe\u2019re\u2026\u201d I\u2019m sure there were guys asking you out on dates, and some of them were cute; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>One of them was very cute!\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, so, I\u2019m sure you were thinking about what life would be like if you stayed here\u2014and some of that had to be alluring and attractive. I mean, go to the UT games with cute guys\u2014that\u2019s not a bad thing; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. Yes, it was\u2014I would not be honest if I said: \u201cYes, it was easy. I just thought, \u2018I\u2019ll move to Uganda.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 It was difficult; and there were times when I thought, \u201cAm I making the right choice?\u201d\u00a0 I remember leaving and saying goodbye to good friends and sweet people when I had decided, \u201cYes, I will go back to Uganda for a year.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Katie, your parents\u2014when you were 16 and you said, \u201cI might want to go to another country at some point,\u201d\u2014they were not sure what to think of that. When you were 17 and said: \u201cThat\u2019s what I want to do for Christmas. Will you go with me, Mom?\u201d\u2014your mom kind of went, reluctantly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, you are saying, \u201cI think I want to spend a year in Uganda and put off school for a year.\u201d\u00a0 Did your mom and dad warm up to this?\u00a0 Or did it take them a while to be able to say, \u201cYes, this is okay, and we\u2019ll support you in this\u201d?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>They were always supportive. They also, though, out of love, really wanted what was best for me and really thought: \u201cWell, in order to be successful and have a good life and be comfortable, you\u2019re going to need to go to college. You\u2019re going to need to have your degree to secure a good job.\u201d So, they really said: \u201cOkay, you go for a year, but no more. Then, you come back and you do school and you make sure that you have this good future in place.\u201d\u00a0 They were just looking out for me in the best way that they knew how. They wanted good things for me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy dad said, \u201cWell, you can\u2019t go live for a year in a place that I have never been.\u201d\u00a0 So, very reluctantly, he got on a plane when I was moving to Uganda in August. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cI\u2019m coming with you for the first week.\u201d\u00a0 I think he spent that first that they were there kind of trying to convince me: \u201cYou cannot do this. You will come home with me. Are you sure that you don\u2019t want to come home with me when the week is over?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes, all the dads, who are listening right now\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019m not\u2026\u201d\u2014in my head, I\u2019m going, \u201cI want to go check this place out\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cbefore I\u2019m leaving my 18-year-old daughter in Africa for a year.\u201d\u00a0 Yes; absolutely!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I mean, the daddy\u2019s love\u2014there is nothing that can compare to it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No; and as an 18-year-old, I didn\u2019t get that\u2014but, as a parent, I go: \u201cHow did you let me do that?!\u201d\u00a0 I did not understand at all on that side of parenting. I mean, I remember the tears in my mom\u2019s eyes as we got on the plane. I remember the tears in my dad\u2019s eyes as he realized, at the end of the week: \u201cYou\u2019re not coming home with me. You\u2019re going to stay here for the year.\u201d\u00a0 That was a huge sacrifice for them to say: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWe love you enough to say, \u2018We don\u2019t really understand why this is what you want to do\u2019; but we love you enough to say, \u2018Okay, you can do it.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You know, it\u2019s interesting, Katie, the number one obstacle to a graduating college senior, coming on Cru staff\u2014which is an organization that recruits a lot of collegians to ministry around the world\u2014the number one obstacle\u2014parents. They are the ones that don\u2019t get it. To me, it\u2019s fascinating that you are not the only one being called to a step of faith\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014that, in the midst of that, the parents are called to put their own belief in the Bible and relationship with Christ on the line as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you\u2019d spent a few months in Uganda, you sat down one day\u2014in fact, you write about it in your book\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s Saturday, September 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 2007.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou must have been there long enough that you were, not only overwhelmed with the living conditions, but also with the needs of human beings\u2014not just a few\u2014<em>thousands<\/em> of human beings in a country ravaged by HIV, AIDS, factions of war, and all kinds of unrest. Share with our listeners what you wrote on that day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie:<\/strong> Sometimes, working in a third-world country makes me feel like I\u2019m \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\temptying the ocean with an eye dropper. And just when I have about half a cup of water, it rains. More orphaned children, from the north, migrate to where I live\u2014more abandoned and dead babies are found, more people are infected with HIV. It is enough to discourage even the most enthusiastic and passionate person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd yet, the discouragement lasts only a moment. God tells me to keep going\u2014that He loves me \/ that He loves these people\u2014that He will never leave or forsake any of us\u2014<em>not one<\/em>\u2014and my work is \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tImportant to Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI spent the day at the wedding of my friend, Lydia. It was a beautiful celebration, not only of the love two people can have for each other, but also of the love God has for us. At the reception, there was a cake, and singing, and dancing just as there would be at any American wedding. One thing that wasn\u2019t like an American wedding, though, was the congregation of street children, at the gate, all longing to join the party inside. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI immediately felt suffocated inside the gates of the extravagant party. So, for most of the reception, you could find me outside with the raggedy, dirty street children\u2014dancing, and laughing, and cuddling. Most people didn\u2019t like that I was associating with these children\u2014the outcasts of society. Many of the fancily-dressed guests at the wedding even came and told me that I probably shouldn\u2019t associate with these children\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tlet alone kiss them and let them bury their faces in my hair. \u201cThey\u2019re street children,\u201d the people would say as if it was some kind of sin\u2014as if the children could help it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe had so much fun, though. The children ate up every bit of attention I could give\u2014danced as close to me as they possibly could and lavished me with love. We spun and laughed until we ached and had to collapse in the grass outside of the place where the reception was taking place. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThose who had been shy at first ended up snuggled close to my side, petting my hair or kissing my hands. The smallest ones fell asleep in my lap despite the blaring music from the wedding. Those who could speak English wanted to know all about me and thanked me, unnecessarily, for spending time with them. They were so happy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI can\u2019t describe the new light in their eyes after all of our dancing. It\u2019s that light\u2014it\u2019s that happiness \/ it\u2019s that love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDarling Emily, a little girl from the orphanage, is snuggled against my chest, fast asleep. And I can feel her heart beating against mine\u2014it\u2019s that beat, it\u2019s that warmth, it\u2019s that love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eye dropper\u2014keep filling it up and emptying my ocean, one drop at a time. I\u2019m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies\u2014I\u2019m just here to love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>When I read that\u2014[emotion in voice] and maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve gone to some orphanages myself and visited these children and seen the faces\u2014I was reminded of a great statement made by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He said, \u201cThere are two kinds of problems in life\u2014those that are far away and those that are near.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I think for the Christian\u2014for the follower of Jesus Christ\u2014we are commanded to go near\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014the orphan and the widow in their affliction. It is pure and undefiled religion, and that\u2019s what you experienced as you danced in the grass,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014outside the gates, with the real party taking place out there instead of at the reception. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And of course, you had no idea, as you were sitting with those children, that you would share your story\u2014that it would become a New York Times bestseller. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Katie: <\/strong>No. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong><em>Glamour Magazine<\/em> would name you the 2012 Woman of the Year\u2014all because you said, \u201cI want to go be near these kids and just love them.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have copies of your book in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. I\u2019d encourage our listeners to go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFrom there, they can order a copy of the book, <em>Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption<\/em>. Again, the website, FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014click the link that says, \u201cGO DEEPER,\u201d to find Katie\u2019s book. <br><br>We also have a link there to Katie\u2019s website. If you\u2019d like to find out more about the work she\u2019s doing in Africa\u2014like to help support what she\u2019s doing\u2014you can do that as well. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com. You\u2019ll find the information you need available there. Or you can call to order the book, <em>Kisses from Katie<\/em>. The toll-free number is 1-800- \u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, I\u2019m thinking about the work that FamilyLife has done over the last decade in helping to raise awareness of the needs of orphans all around the world. Dennis, I\u2019m really thinking of the folks who helped make all of that possible through their financial support of this ministry. We could not do what we do without our listeners making it all possible. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are listener-supported. More than 60 percent of the money that we need to operate this ministry comes from donations, from folks just like you. About half of that money comes in during the month of December\u2014that\u2019s why this is such a key month for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd fortunately, we\u2019ve had some friends of the ministry come along who have agreed to provide matching funds, here in December. They are going to match every donation our listeners send to us this month, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, up to a total of $2,000,000. Of course, we are grateful for their support; but if we are going to take advantage of those matching funds, we need listeners, like you, to go today to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cI Care,\u201d and make as generous a donation to support this ministry as you can possible make. Again, the website, FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014or you can call to make a donation at 1-800-FL-TODAY\u2014and you can always mail your donation to us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur address is: <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR: and our zip code is 72223. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to hear about Katie Davis\u2019s move to Africa and about what happened four months in when she thought, \u201cDo I really want to be here?\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ll hear that story tomorrow. I hope you can tune in for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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