by Emily | Feb 4, 2019 | Christmas, Happenings in Uganda
Family is awkward and difficult and real. It abandons pretense. It is runny noses and hiccuping laughter and singing in the hallway. It is joking and staying up until 3:30 in the morning to deal with conflicts, and it is praying and rejoicing when all is resolved.... 
by Emily | Jan 28, 2019 | Christmas, Happenings In Katwe, Happenings in Uganda
by Jeanne Damoff, Secretary of The Lulu Tree At the top of the lined sheet of paper, the words are written in red ink: “Those who got Jesus as Savior 20th, October, 2018.” There are twelve names written on the page. Twelve souls brought out of darkness and into light.... 
by Emily | Jan 21, 2019 | Christmas, Happenings in Uganda
I’m seated with dozens of other mothers under a pink jasmine tree in the Pearl of Africa. The air is sweet and sticky, like toffee melted in the 95 degree sun, and we’re hunting shade by the long wall that circles this two acres of school dorms. Pink feathered... 
by Emily | Jan 14, 2019 | Christmas, Happenings in Uganda
It’s been a dream of mine, this bringing of my husband and children to a land I fell for five years ago, head over stumbling heels. A land of fresh avocado and shoe-less children, of wide smiles and giggling babies and mothers that can’t sleep for their... 
by Emily | Dec 17, 2018 | Christmas, Happenings in Uganda
Hi dear friends. This is Emily. Since founding The Lulu Tree four and a half years ago, my husband (Trent) and children {Aiden (9), Kasher (7.5) and Aria (3.5)} have patiently put up with my coming and going to Africa, with my tears and my sleepless nights and my...