by Lulu Stories | Mar 13, 2023 | Happenings in Liberia, Orphan Spirit, Our Vision, The Lulu Tree philosophy
By Emily It’s an epidemic etched on the eyes of Liberia’s street children. They reach into cars at red lights, steal what they can. They steal because they’re taught to. Not by their fathers, but rather, by their fathers’ absence. When we enter the villages with our... 
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 19, 2022 | Happenings in Guinea, Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Our Vision
By Emily He steps out of the vehicle, and the children come. In cut-off shorts, in torn shirts, the village children come, from watering holes and from benches in front of their homes, they grab his legs, his hands, and he doesn’t push them away. This broad-shouldered... 
by Lulu Stories | Dec 5, 2022 | Happenings in Liberia, Uncategorized
By Emily It’s been a day of riding motorbikes across red dirt roads pocked with potholes the size of ravines. We pass trucks that have sunk, immovable, in these crevices. Young boys scrape at their wheels, covered head to foot with mud, exhaustion streaking their... 
by Lulu Stories | Jul 5, 2021 | Happenings in Liberia, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily It was evening in the town of Zorzor, Liberia. The air inside the church was thick with sweat and praise. Arms raised, feet moving, bodies swaying, shoulder to shoulder. Up front, Pastor David Zawu was deep in the Spirit, leading the people by calling...