by Lulu Stories | Apr 2, 2024 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Happenings in India, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Orphan Spirit, Our Vision, Sustainable Projects
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... 
by Lulu Stories | Mar 4, 2024 | Faithraising, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Our Vision, Testimonies, World Missions
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.... 
by Lulu Stories | Feb 5, 2024 | Asia, Biblical Training, Equipping Mothers, Equipping Pastors, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Sustainability, Sustainable Projects
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... 
by Lulu Stories | Jan 16, 2024 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Gospel, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Sustainability, Sustainable Projects
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... 
by Lulu Stories | Dec 18, 2023 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Father Issues, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Orphan Spirit
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...