Kira is a lifelong Savannahnian. She attended Blessed Sacrament School and St. Vincent’s Academy before venturing up to Athens to the University of Georgia. She was a frantic Art History major, trying to figure out what she was going to do in this life (career-wise) when God threw a wrench into things by way of an online cooking show. Arthur, her then-boyfriend, and she began Cookin’ For College, a show focused on eating well within a college budget. And, Kira quickly adapted to her new position as Arthur’s camera crew, film editor, and public relations manager. Shortly after launching, the duo was flown to NYC by Fox News and featured on their morning show. Arthur was then a guest on Paula Deen’s Paula’s Best Dishes. This catapulted Kira into a public relations major in UGA’s Grady College of Journalism.
Sadly, throughout college, Kira let her lifelong identity in her Catholic faith fade. Though she proudly identified as Catholic, it was only in name. She waded through the murky waters of early marriage (to Arthur), bumbling to discover what it meant to be a wife and then a mother. Fear and anxiety gripped her, though many would never have suspected. Arthur and she grew what he likes to call the King Empire. They moved to a little homestead with a menagerie of animals and renovated their home and a few rental properties to put into the retirement portfolio. God played a huge role in these years. Kira and Arthur prayed, but they still rarely frequented a church. “There’s time,” they said.
As God does though, he invited them home, and they gradually accepted His invitation. They started to discern God’s will for their lives, what it meant to be in a relationship with Him, how to have a God-focused marriage, how to raise children in the faith, and so much more. Arthur likes to joke that Kira can consume a shocking amount of knowledge when she wants to. It just so happened that the knowledge she started consuming at an increasingly rapid rate was about the beauty and richness of the Catholic faith. After knowledge comes application, and the couple had a reversion back into the arms of the Catholic church.
They then began an outreach ministry to combat the ‘nones’ of their and younger generations. It is called Farm to Jesus, a bi-monthly dinner party with homecooked farm-to-table meals, Catholic discussions, and wonderful fellowship. (www.farmtojesus.com) They are FOCCUS Marriage facilitators and speakers and leaders and organizers of their Deanery’s Pre-Cana Marriage Preparation Retreat. (www.precanasavannah.com) Kira is the Savannah Village Leader of the Militia of the Immaculata and also volunteers at St. Vincent’s Academy to speak about the raw truth and beauty of the vocation of wifehood and motherhood.
The Holy Spirit led her to start writing her talks down so that young Catholic women anywhere would have a guide they could reference. This eventually led to the creation of a workbook to accompany the book. The Kings lives were transformed when they started saying ‘yes’ to the Lord. Now, they want to share this good news with others wherever and whenever they can.
Kira hosts a podcast with her husband, Arthur, called The Homestead Kings and is normally found sipping a cup of tea while reading aloud to her children, going on “chore” dates with her beloved husband, or walking out in the garden, enjoying God’s blessings and prepping for planting or harvesting. She has a weakness for crusty antiques, the smell of old books, hydrangeas, roses, and blueberry bushes, and she welcomes any chance to extend a warm hello to a friend or family member who just happens to stop by.
Kira G. King 