by Lulu Stories | Aug 7, 2023 | Biblical Training, Equipping Pastors, Lulu News, Lulu Tree Updates, Our Vision, The Lulu Tree philosophy, Uncategorized, World Missions
By Emily I don’t know that one can feel smaller than when seated at the foot of a mountain. And this is where I was, just days ago, on the eve of my 43rd birthday, a river rushing by like it couldn’t wait to satisfy every thirsty thing. I sat there in Jasper, Alberta,... 
by Lulu Stories | Aug 15, 2022 | Lulu News, Lulu Tree Updates, Our Vision
By Emily Theresa “So that the genuineness of your faith may be tested…” (1 Peter 1:7) It’s a tiny island known as the teardrop of India. And its government has fallen. Fuel lines in Sri Lanka are five times the length they are in the United States. Women and children... 
by Lulu Stories | Jun 27, 2022 | Lulu News, Lulu Tree Updates, Our Vision
An update on all the Lulu countries – & a 40-day fast for the future By Emily Theresa It’s summer here in Canada. The frogs croak their songs, and the air smells of purple lilacs and fresh rototilled dirt and campfires. Every morning our... 
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 Lulu Stories | Jan 31, 2022 | Equipping Pastors, Happenings in Uganda, Lulu News, Lulu Tree Updates
By Mommy Emily He brings us a cake. We’re lined up in our Sunday best, like colorful crayons arranged on plastic chairs in a small square room. It’s someone’s home in the slum of Kasuli, lent for use by the church. A warm breeze drifts in through the open... 
by Lulu Stories | Oct 8, 2021 | COVID-19, Lulu News, Lulu Tree Updates, The Lulu Team
By Mommy Emily I’m looking out my office window at fields of shorn canola, at gently waving leaves of gold, sapphire, and burnt orange lacing poplars, aspen, and maples. I feel the soft breeze of autumn slip through the window screen. In my pantry are stacks of mason...