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 | 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 | 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 | Mar 7, 2022 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Lulu Mamas, Lulu News
By Mommy Emily She’d died alone on a cold stone floor giving birth to twins. The same day the birthing clinic opened. I wasn’t there, but I imagine a cotton tree might have drooped its head outside her home, a house built of the same clay earth it sat... 
by Emily | Jan 11, 2021 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda, Lulu Tree Updates, Sustainability, The Lulu Tree philosophy, Transparency of Funds
HOW IT ALL BEGAN But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” ~ 1 Corinthians 2:9 Seven years ago, this month, I took my first plane ride to Uganda. Seven... 
by Emily | Dec 7, 2020 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Sierra Leone Goes Sustainable by Mommy Emily It’s November 2016. I’ve left my three little ones with their Oma and Opa and Dad on the farm in northern Alberta, snow piled high. I’m flying, alone, to a country in West Africa, a tiny country made infamous by Ebola,...