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 | Dec 13, 2021 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined. ~ Isaiah 9:2, NKJV We’re stopped on the side of the road, our van broken down outside of Gulu, Uganda. A...
by Lulu Stories | Dec 6, 2021 | Happenings in South Sudan, Sustainability
By Mommy Emily It’s night when we finally arrive at the camps, the cicadas singing and the whites of the stars blinking brighter than they ever seem to at home. The quiet darkness is quite the contrast to the five-hour-long bus ride we took from Kampala to Gulu,...
by Lulu Stories | Nov 22, 2021 | Happenings in Uganda
By Mommy Emily “But I will leave in your midsta people humble and lowly.They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord,those who are left in Israel;they shall do no injusticeand speak no lies,nor shall there be found in their moutha deceitful tongue.For they...
by Lulu Stories | Nov 15, 2021 | Equipping Pastors, Happenings in South Sudan
By Mommy Emily I wasn’t prepared for South Sudan. I’d gone there once before in 2019, and crossing the Ugandan border had been simple. That time I’d visited the refugee camps of Adjumani in northern Uganda to pray with Pastor Santos, a South Sudanese man who lived...
