by Lulu Stories | Jun 25, 2018 | Happenings in Sierra Leone
Post and photos by Jeanne Damoff The simple wooden benches in the small church are filled with the people of Kamassaralie Village, young and old. They’ve gathered for Sunday service, and their young pastor, Ezekiel, stands before them delivering a powerful sermon....
by Lulu Stories | Jun 11, 2018 | Happenings in South Sudan, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily, Images by Paula Bronstein I am so tired my bones are weeping. I’m in the Uganda airport, returning home. My spirit, blown big from all the prayer and worship and love, deflates so fast I gasp. We’re gone for 10 days at most on these trips: three and a...
by Lulu Stories | May 29, 2018 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Uncategorized
The chugging sound of a tractor fills the air deep in the bush of Sierra Leone, where Pastor Sonnel is planting rice. He says that he hopes this work will produce a harvest to feed all 12 nearby villages, and he’s trusting God to multiply since the men who sold him...
by Lulu Stories | May 7, 2018 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily I am walking with a cloth bag on my shoulder, flip-flops making noiseless patterns in Uganda’s red soil. We pass Erica who’s taking photos of village children who’ve become fascinated with her sunglasses. We pass banana and mango trees. Pastor Paul is...
by Lulu Stories | Apr 23, 2018 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily It’s Tuesday and sweat is trickling down the insides of my knees. We’re seated on wooden benches in Namagera Village, just five minutes from the School of Hope land. It’s a prayer clinic – our national team puts it on every month to train locals how to...
by Lulu Stories | Apr 16, 2018 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily My mama is sick. They say she’s in palliative care. I found this out days before my trip to Uganda and for the first time in four years of traveling to Africa, I didn’t want to go. I wept as I packed my bags with colorful skirts and flip-flops. I wept...
