STORIES FROM THE LULU TREE
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Stories from the Past…
Teaching Children their Value in the Slums of Uganda
By Tricia Simmons Have you ever had the privilege of ministering to children? If not, just know it is the hardest and sweetest thing one is called to do. It is like parenting. You pray for the children in your care, you prepare lessons for them, then you share the...
The Planting of the Lord: Training Up New Branches of The Lulu Tree
The Planting of the Lord: Training Up New Branches of The Lulu Tree By Jeanne Damoff A tree is a living thing. It can be trained to take a certain shape through careful, wise pruning, but its Creator makes it thrive. And He alone fully knows the plans He has — the...
Microloans: Giving With Hope
by Joanne Viola, treasurer of The Lulu Tree "Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a dry-as-dust...
Cyclone Idai and What it can Teach us about Love
By Mommy Emily It’s dusk when the news hits my phone. The church we worked so hard to build for Pastor Santos last month in the South Sudan camps has been destroyed overnight — along with countless other churches and homes and businesses — by a vicious cyclone that...
Introducing Our Prayer Wall — & Why We Don’t Do Mission Trips
It's afternoon and I'm on my phone, scrolling through messages from across the waters — photos of people who now hold my heart. And I long to take you all with me. I long to carry you into this world, into the villages and wide-split smiles that make up the family...
Why The Lulu Tree believes in fasting (& an invitation to join us)
By Mommy Emily I've been meditating on the sacred holding places. The places which held Jesus on earth. Mary's womb, which first made space for the holding of the divine conception. The manger, a rough-hewn wooden cradle, holding the King's infant skin; the...
Announcing a week of praise & thanksgiving
Friends... God has poured out upon The Lulu Tree in such a mighty way this past week. We are in awe. Our Father is so good -- He has truly arisen to fight on behalf of the poor and needy! (Psalm 10) He is the Lion of Judah and our trust is in Him alone. In spite of us...
Shoulder to Shoulder
Post by Joanne Viola, treasurer of The Lulu Tree The photos come in on my phone of men and women - my brothers and sisters - in South Sudan. They labor so hard to construct churches, sanctuaries for the people to come and worship, and hear God's Word. They are simple...
The Jajja Outreach and Being Baptized in the Nile River
Family is awkward and difficult and real. It abandons pretense. It is runny noses and hiccuping laughter and singing in the hallway. It is joking and staying up until 3:30 in the morning to deal with conflicts, and it is praying and rejoicing when all is resolved....
Raising up children and pastors in the slums of Uganda
by Jeanne Damoff, Secretary of The Lulu Tree At the top of the lined sheet of paper, the words are written in red ink: “Those who got Jesus as Savior 20th, October, 2018.” There are twelve names written on the page. Twelve souls brought out of darkness and into light....