Stories from The Lulu Tree
All of life is made up of stories. The Lulu Tree is dedicated to preserving our family’s stories, and representing the glory of God in every story we share.
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When the Helped Becomes the Helper – West Africa Trip, 2022
By Emily He steps out of the vehicle, and the children come. In cut-off shorts, in torn shirts, the village children come, from watering holes and from benches in front of their homes, they grab his legs, his hands, and he doesn’t push them away. This broad-shouldered...
Broken Down in Guinea – West Africa Trip, 2022
By Emily They stare into a labyrinth of tubes and wires, a straggle of boys in rags and bare feet, here in Kindia, Guinea. They circle the hood of the car that has carried us from Sierra Leone through multiple checkpoints, where police peered into our windows, ignored...
Candles in a Liberian Village – West Africa Trip, November 2022
By Emily It’s been a day of riding motorbikes across red dirt roads pocked with potholes the size of ravines. We pass trucks that have sunk, immovable, in these crevices. Young boys scrape at their wheels, covered head to foot with mud, exhaustion streaking their...
Photos from the Trip to West Africa
Emily is on her way back to Canada... by the time this post reaches you, she'll be home and reunited with her family. Thank you so very much for praying over this trip. It was a whirlwind, touched deeply by the Holy Spirit and full of adventure! Emily will be updating...
Helping the Single Mothers of Sri Lanka
By Emily This summer we fasted and prayed for 40 days, asking God: a) if He wanted the Lulu Tree to continue, and b) if so, where He would have us go. He said: a) yes, and b) to go “to the other side.” And then we felt Him specifically direct us to Sri Lanka, an...
Stories from mothers learning tailoring in India
Dear Lulu Tree Family -- we asked our partners in north and south India if they would share stories from the tailoring centers of the mothers who are being trained so they can care for their families. Following are those stories, straight from the source. Be blessed...
The Immeasurably More
Post by Jeanne Damoff, Secretary of The Lulu Tree Foundation Board “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine . . .” Ephesians 3:20 The Note on my Phone My family is in a season of major transition. We sold our house on July 15 and are...
Half the Sky: The Lulu Tree’s Renewed Focus on Single Mothers
By Emily Theresa Half the sky is held up by women. – Chinese proverb I’m on a road trip with my family, driving through the Canadian prairies, and the pale land stretches like a long, flat face stubbled with corn and wheat. We pass tired old grain elevators that once...
In which we go to the other side (Sri Lanka)
By Emily Theresa “So that the genuineness of your faith may be tested…” (1 Peter 1:7) It’s a tiny island known as the teardrop of India. And its government has fallen. Fuel lines in Sri Lanka are five times the length they are in the United States. Women and children...
An update on all the Lulu countries – & a 40-day fast for the future
An update on all the Lulu countries – & a 40-day fast for the future By Emily Theresa It’s summer here in Canada. The frogs croak their songs, and the air smells of purple lilacs and fresh rototilled dirt and campfires. Every morning our...