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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Preventing the Orphan Spirit in Africa
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...
To the Ends of the Earth – Emily’s & Erica’s Trip to Uganda, March 2022
by Erica We’ve driven through miles of dusty, rugged road, past fields where women work the rusty soil, their babies sleeping on their backs while...
Amina’s Story – How a Mama from the Slums is Going Sustainable (from Erica’s and Emily’s March 2022 trip)
Her dimples run deep, like furrows in brown soil, and her eyes turn up at the ends when she’s truly happy. I’ve known her for eight years, since...
Unless a Seed First Dies
by Erica Hale It’s Springtime in the Rockies, time to plan and plant a garden. And I’m thinking about seeds. How each year, it seems a...
The Grand Opening of the Birthing Clinic in Sierra Leone
By Mommy Emily She’d died alone on a cold stone floor giving birth to twins. The same day the birthing clinic opened. I wasn’t there,...
A Cathedral in the Slums of Kampala – Emily’s Trip to Africa, Continued
By Mommy Emily He brings us a cake. We’re lined up in our Sunday best, like colorful crayons arranged on plastic chairs in a small square...
Broken Down at the side of the road in Gulu, Uganda
By Mommy Emily The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a...
African Tea, Mud Tukuls & Cockroaches in the South Sudan Refugee Camps – Emily’s Trip to Africa, October 2021
Sixty-four tribes take refuge here in eighteen settlements — more than 200,000 refugees. This particular camp is called Pagirinya, with most of its residents being mothers and children, the majority of whom were separated from each other during the war, all of them escaping across the river Nile like the Israelites fleeing the ruthless Egyptians. And for many, in Pagirinya camp, their Moses has been Pastor Santos.
Raising up a David in Uganda – Emily’s trip to East Africa, October 2021
Everywhere you look in Uganda, people are suffering. Mothers are sleeping on the sides of roads with their babies. Hundreds of children are joining child-headed gangs, stealing, pickpocketing, in order to appease the gang leader. Teenage pregnancies are sky-high with school being closed for so long.
Interrogated at the Border of South Sudan
I went back to the team, shaken, trying not to cry. I hadn’t realized how nervous I’d been. Enock kept saying, “God has this, sister. He’s got it all under control.” It was then that I glanced down and almost laughed. The T-shirt I was wearing that day said, “God has a plan.” Surely, He did.