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 | 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 kaylan | Jan 2, 2024 | Africa, Asia, Biblical Training, Church, Equipping Mothers, Equipping Pastors, Happenings in Guinea, Happenings in India, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Happenings in Uganda, Our Vision, Sustainability
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... 
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... 
by Lulu Stories | Dec 4, 2023 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Faith, Gospel, Happenings in India, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Our Vision, The Lulu Tree philosophy
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...