by Lulu Stories | Apr 2, 2024 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Happenings in India, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Orphan Spirit, Our Vision, Sustainable Projects
By Emily Theresa It’s the balloons that get me. Twenty mothers are seated on the floor. They’re from Mudur, Sri Lanka and they’re seated in elegance, wearing their best dresses, their bare feet crossed. Some have brought their children, and the pastor sits...
by Lulu Stories | Dec 18, 2023 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Father Issues, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Orphan Spirit
By Emily Theresa A little Buddha sits on the dashboard. He’s serene, hands folded in his lap, oblivious to the fact that he’s plastic. We’re in the middle of the Indian Ocean, on the “Teardrop of India,” an island country called Sri Lanka. Every crevice of this island...
by Lulu Stories | Jun 5, 2023 | Biblical Training, Equipping Pastors, Orphan Spirit, Our Vision, Sustainability, The Lulu Tree philosophy
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee… ~ Isaiah 43:1 “They came to kill me at my home.” He says this around a bite of banana stew. His name is Simeon. Dressed in a purple shirt with a priest’s...
by Lulu Stories | Mar 13, 2023 | Happenings in Liberia, Orphan Spirit, Our Vision, The Lulu Tree philosophy
By Emily It’s an epidemic etched on the eyes of Liberia’s street children. They reach into cars at red lights, steal what they can. They steal because they’re taught to. Not by their fathers, but rather, by their fathers’ absence. When we enter the villages with our...
