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 | Feb 26, 2018 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Uncategorized
Post by Jeanne Damoff, Lulu Tree Board Director I live in a comfortable home in a nice neighborhood in a big city in the United States of America. I drive a dependable car and shop at grocery stores that sell organic coffee beans and roasted sea-salt beet chips. I...
by Lulu Stories | Dec 18, 2017 | Happenings in Sierra Leone
By Mommy Emily We arrive to a throng of people alive with hope the color of the lush green forests around them. They begin few – three miles out – a few young men and boys able to run the distance. Then they’re joined by school children in blue...
by Lulu Stories | Dec 4, 2017 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily We arrive in the evening, after 24 hours of flight. We arrive to the roar of a motorboat taking us across the waters to the mainland of this west African country founded by former slaves. We’re ushered into the country by boys who scramble to...
by Lulu Stories | Nov 20, 2017 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily It’s like a long pencil-streak, this road I ride. A strip of ruler-straight asphalt, drawn past fields of wheat and canola. Sometimes I see deer with white tails, leaping through blades of wheat. Sometimes I hear frogs. Once, I saw a moose taking a swim...
by Lulu Stories | Oct 16, 2017 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
I have spent my whole life trying to be successful. I thought it was what we were supposed to do. Worse than that, I thought success was the mark of a blessed Christian. If God loves you he’ll bless you, says the prayer of Jabez and North America’s favorite verse,...
