by Lulu Stories | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily I spent the greater portion of my life trying to be successful. I thought it was what we were supposed to do, as humans. But 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...
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 | Feb 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily I live in a tiny village north of the US border, tucked amongst snowy fields and red silos. I look out my window and see deer walking down our road. And across the highway, a huge Co-Op. It’s a Co-Op that offers everything from gloves to paint to...
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 | Jan 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily The Lulu Tree was born four years ago in Uganda, in the midst of one of the hardest years of my life. A year in which I had every reason to stop believing. But I clung. My husband and I clung. The Buddhists say to cling is to suffer. Christians,...
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...
