STORIES FROM THE LULU TREE
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Stories from the Past…
The Incarnational Love – and Laughter – of Christ
By Emily Theresa It’s the balloons that get me. Twenty mothers are seated on the floor. They're from Mudur, Sri Lanka and they're seated in elegance, wearing their best dresses, their bare feet crossed. Some have brought their children, and the pastor sits on the...
Finding Love in Unlikely Places: Part 4 of Sri Lanka Trip
By Emily Theresa Sometimes love finds you in a tuk tuk, searching for a computer repair shop. It had been two long weeks of ministry in Sri Lanka. Every day, after ministering to mothers, I would update my board back home. I would write blog posts and send photos....
The Hard & The Holy: Trip to Sri Lanka, Part 3
By Emily Theresa We’re quiet in the van. There are six of us – Mohan, in the front, a man from Sri Lanka who’s the hands and feet of the operation; Saroja, beside me – the Sri Lanka director who lives in South India; Steve, behind me – our Burundian Director of...
The Widow Who Fed Me Curry & Christ: Sri Lanka Trip, Part 2
By Emily Theresa It’s papaya season here in Sri Lanka. And this woman in the yellow dress, she brings us goblets full of the perfect golden fruit, cubed. We fill our plates with chicken stew, fish stew, coconut rice, lentil Dahl and green beans. Plastic chairs scrape...
Annual Praise Report ~ All God Did Through YOU in 2023!
Dear Lulu Tree Family - Happy New Year! Greetings from myself, Emily, and all of your Lulu Tree brothers and sisters! The time has come to celebrate, once again, all the Lord has done through you, dear ones, over the previous year. “I thank my God upon every...
The Tears of Ceylon ~ Part 1, Sri Lanka Trip
By Emily Theresa A little Buddha sits on the dashboard. He’s serene, hands folded in his lap, oblivious to the fact that he’s plastic. We’re in the middle of the Indian Ocean, on the “Teardrop of India,” an island country called Sri Lanka. Every crevice of this island...
The Sovereignty of God (over travel plans & nations)
By Emily Theresa Even as you read this, friends, I’m preparing to fly home from Sri Lanka. I had thought I’d be flying home from India. When I was young, I dreamt about Mother Teresa. In my dreams, she would fly into my backyard in a private airplane, and take me...
The Simplicity of the Gospel
by Emily The meal is over and we gather on the couches. Geoff pulls out his harmonica and me, my guitar. Doug is there in his Calgary Zoo t-shirt, and he asks us to pray for Calgary, as he always does. We sing Jesus Loves Me and Doug’s voice is the loudest. Laura...
On Radical Rest
By Emily It’s Sunday morning and I’m searching my closet for a white cardigan to wear to church. I don’t have one, so I sigh, lift it to the Lord, move on quietly with my day. Later that afternoon, my mother-in-law stops by. She has a blue plastic bag full of clothes....
In Which Sorrow and Suffering Help Us Win the Race
By Emily We’re hiking, my husband and I, on our 20th wedding anniversary. We’re avid hikers, nature-lovers and general adventure-seekers. Yet this hike is different. On this hike, my husband is limping. It’s a new thing, this bone splint in his left heel, combined...