Saying Yes to Hope: Katie Davis Majors on Faith, Adoption, and Finding God in the Hard Places

Voxology

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How choosing risk and obedience over comfort sparked a life of radical love, hardship, and staggering hope. In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Mike and Andy talk with bestselling author and missionary Katie Davis Majors on the life-shaping journey from suburban Tennessee teen to adoptive mother of thirteen girls and founder of a thriving ministry in Uganda. Katie shares the backstory behind her books Kisses from Katie and Daring to Hope, offering profound insights on finding God not only in the miracles but also in the mess.

From saying yes to a three-week trip that turned into a lifelong calling to navigating deep personal loss, spiritual doubt, and the burdens of unexpected fame, Katie opens up about the vulnerability, beauty, and brokenness of wholehearted discipleship. This conversation is a much-needed dose of good news, grace, and gritty faith.

Key Takeaways:
• Going All In on Obedience – How a single “yes” launched Katie’s journey from teen missionary to Ugandan mother and ministry leader.
• When Hope Looks Like Heartache – Navigating seasons of grief, quiet faith, and unanswered prayer with authenticity and trust.
• Reframing Orphan Care – Unpacking the misconceptions about orphanages and how poverty, not parentlessness, is often the root issue.
• Faith Under Fame – Wrestling with the tension between being placed on a pedestal and living a messy, real, vulnerable faith journey.
• Building A Better Education Model in Uganda – Why Amazima opened a high school that combines discipleship, critical thinking, and opportunity for generational change.

Guest Highlights:
Katie Davis Majors – New York Times bestselling author of Kisses from Katie and Daring to Hope, founder of Amazima Ministries, and adoptive mom to 13 Ugandan girls. Katie shares how God transformed ordinary obedience into a global movement centered on justice, family, and radical dependence on Christ.

Resources Mentioned:
• Katie Davis Majors' Website and Ministry – amazima.org
• Daring to Hope – [Link to Book]
• Kisses from Katie – [Link to Book]

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Music in this episode by Timothy John Stafford

Instagram & Twitter: @GoneTimothy

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0:00.0	Hello, internet. Greetings from Soggy, Ohio. Mike Erie here from the epicenter of Vox,
0:18.9	the Vox movement, suburban Columbus, Ohio. Andy chiming in from some sort of beach
0:25.0	community. I don't even remember what that's like. It's in the 60s. He's got a beanie on
0:30.9	and a sweatshirt. I don't even remember what that's like so long ago, Andy.
0:44.3	So today, I mean, oh my goodness, this is the week where, like, hitting the fan has become,
0:46.1	I open up Twitter every morning.
0:48.4	And I'm an advantage now on East Coast time.
0:49.9	Like, it's happening in real time.
0:50.4	Oh, yeah.
0:57.1	And so, you know, yesterday we get up and it's like, boom, Matt Lauer, boom, President Trump is retweeting fascist, you know, racist groups.
1:01.0	Boom.
1:01.5	You know, I mean, here's the next actor accused.
1:04.6	And I mean, it's just absolutely insane.
1:07.0	There's so much to talk about.
1:09.8	But there's this sense. I don't know if it's true for you,
1:12.0	Andy, but there's just the sense of like, I need to detox. Like, there's just so much awful
1:17.8	that's going on right now kind of in the air and the water. North Korea can now hit us.
1:23.5	They have a missile long enough to hit sweet Ohio. Right.
1:32.0	So you're almost concerned that they could have hit California, you know, six months ago when they're saying. Right, right.
1:33.6	But Ohio would make more logical sense just because it's kind of the center of everything.
1:39.0	And Ohio State, you know, I mean, it just makes sense that would be one of the first sort of communities gone after. Yeah. So I feel like, you know, I feel like we've bought in lots of, we've purchased,
1:49.1	bought in, that's a great word. We've purchased lots of plastic and gas masks, so we're ready.
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