by Lulu Stories | Mar 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
–by Mommy Emily The Forgotten Villages lie beyond Lil’ Scary River, a long-winding path of water through Sierra Leone’s remotest bush, where crocodiles lie in wait as you ease past, kneeling in a canoe hewn out of a tree. Little boys, barefoot, silent, guide these...
by Emily | Feb 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily She rises, alone. Dusts the tattered mat she’s slept on. The sun rises too, like a blood orange in a blue bowl. It’s hot in this desert of Nimule, South Sudan. Somewhere a rooster crows, like it’s clearing its throat. Minutes later, people are gathering...
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,...
by Emily | Nov 23, 2020 | Lulu Tree Updates
Dear Friends, So – I’m Canadian. But the rest of our Lulu board is American, and I’m very aware that this week is none other than Thanksgiving, and that we need to honor the Lord for all He’s done this year, in spite of a Global Pandemic. I...
by Emily | Nov 9, 2020 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda, Lulu Tree Updates
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] By Mommy Emily ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former...
