by Lulu Stories | Feb 6, 2023 | Biblical Training, Equipping Pastors, Happenings in Guinea, Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone
By Emily The band marches, batons twirl, and dignitaries rise as 44 graduating students enter, garbed in black caps and gowns sewn here in Sierra Leone. I know, because a few days earlier I sat on a wooden bench in the tailor’s humble shop, black thread and strips of... 
by Lulu Stories | Jan 16, 2023 | Biblical Training, Equipping Pastors, Happenings in Guinea, Happenings in Liberia, Our Vision, The Lulu Tree philosophy
By Emily His name is Gavin, and we’re seated together on the plane from Belgium to Canada. He’s lived in Brussels the past six years but hails from the Congo. When he hears I work with local churches in Africa, he says he used to believe there’s a God, but now he... 
by Lulu Stories | Dec 12, 2022 | Biblical Training, Equipping Pastors, Happenings in Guinea, Our Vision
By Emily They stare into a labyrinth of tubes and wires, a straggle of boys in rags and bare feet, here in Kindia, Guinea. They circle the hood of the car that has carried us from Sierra Leone through multiple checkpoints, where police peered into our windows, ignored... 
by Lulu Stories | Apr 25, 2022 | Biblical Training, Happenings in Uganda, Sustainability
by Erica We’ve driven through miles of dusty, rugged road, past fields where women work the rusty soil, their babies sleeping on their backs while the equatorial sun shines warm around them in the thick, humid air. We pass a cluster of brick kilns, great beehive-like...