STORIES FROM THE LULU TREE
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Inviting the Poor to Serve the Poor
By Mommy Emily It’s Tuesday and sweat is trickling down the insides of my knees. We’re seated on wooden benches in Namagera Village, just five minutes from the School of Hope land. It’s a prayer clinic – our national team puts it on every month to train locals how to...
The Miracle of the Mama Kits
By Mommy Emily My mama is sick. They say she’s in palliative care. I found this out days before my trip to Uganda and for the first time in four years of traveling to Africa, I didn’t want to go. I wept as I packed my bags with colorful skirts and flip-flops. I wept...
That All of Them May Be One: Seven Churches on Palm Sunday
By Erica Hale, VP of The Lulu Tree The van lurches over ruts cut deep into red earth by the rainy season’s downpour. It’s Palm Sunday, and we’ve driven to the villages past the road that runs through Jinja, edged by dusty boys with wide smiles selling fistfuls of palm...
Jesus Shared His Heart with Me: Thoughts on Lulu Uganda by a Recent Traveler
Post by Norah Kennedy, Executive Director of the Edmonton Pregnancy Care Center, who recently traveled with Emily and Erica to Uganda It's early in the morning on Monday and I've been awake for a while contemplating Africa. I cried all the way from the airport as I...
The Road to Namagera Village
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...
I’m Going to Africa to Get God and Bring Him Home
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...
10 Lies Christians Believe about Success (Which We’re Trying to Undo at The Lulu Tree)
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...
Planting Light in the Darkness
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...
Show Real Love this Valentine’s Day
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...
Faithraising and Why It’s Hard and Holy
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...