by Lulu Stories | Apr 4, 2018 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily There’s a road from Kampala to Jinja and it’s called Kampala Road when you’re driving to Kampala and Jinja Road when you’re driving to Jinja. We are driving to Jinja. Past lush green tea plantations and long lines of potted flowers. Past school students...
by Lulu Stories | Mar 21, 2018 | Happenings in Uganda
By Mommy Emily I’m standing in the middle of Costco with a cart full of things we really don’t need surrounded by people pushing carts filled with things they really don’t need in a warehouse lined with shelves stacked with things we’re all convinced we can’t live...
by Lulu Stories | Feb 5, 2018 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
It was Ontario, mid-summer. I was 27 and weeding my mother’s flower bed while she lay inside, comatose. She’d been asleep for 30 hours. She was sick with brain cancer and my husband and I had decided to move close to my parents to take care of her. And that’s when I...
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,...
by Lulu Stories | Oct 2, 2017 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
(a post by Mommy Emily) Her name was Solange. She was as thin as an extinguished matchstick, sitting there in the dark in her parents’ living room where she’d been confined to the corner for life because she was blind, and mute, and a disgrace to her people. They...
by Lulu Stories | Sep 4, 2017 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
When I was praying one day I saw these girls, and they were lying on the ground, and big demon-like men were coming along and picking them up and throwing them in dumpsters. I cried out to God and He said, “Will you go and help them?” Friends, these girls are our teen...
