Africa, a book and a movie

I am reading a book by Katie Davis called “Kisses From Katie”,  it is not romantic at all.  She is a young woman who has adopted 13 girls in the Central African country of Uganda.  When I say young I mean she is about 23 now, she went to Uganda at 18 on a short term mission trip that transformed her life. Yes, if you are wondering,  Uganda is the country where Joseph Kony has abducted over 66,000 children for the sex trade and made the boys into soldiers for his army, over 2 million people have been displaced from the war this man has ravaged upon that country.

If you have seen the rated “R” movie “Machine Gun Preacher” it is based on true facts of another missionary in Uganda, Sam Childers. I do not recommend this movie for the family – Hollywood has taken Sam’s story and dramatized it past a Christian message into a movie about “A Rebel Who Found His Cause”.  This movie has sex, drugs, violence and language.

He is one tough Christian in a war against evil.

 Uganda is a big place and to my knowledge these two missionaries do not have anything to do with each other.  Their stories are so different but it is in the same devastated place, Katie is much farther south and does not deal directly with the war zone but does help children who migrate there. (Although I have not finished the book who knows what she has faced).

One an angel and one a warrior.

Both serving God the best way they know in a country torn apart by a monster.