Stories from The Lulu Tree
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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.
Posho & Demons – Emily’s Trip to Kenya, October 2021
Pastor Samson is standing there when we emerge from Immigration. He’s wearing an oversized leather jacket and a huge smile, a mask straddling his thin chin.
We hug shyly, because this is the first time, but Enock he knows, and the hug is sure with a resounding, “My brother!” Shaban and Daniel are there too, the Uganda team, in Kenya.
In Which We (Finally!!!) Return to Africa – October Trip to Uganda, South Sudan & Kenya
My well-meaning husband asked, “Don’t you check those things before you book your trips?” And I shook my head and said, “No. When God says to go, I simply go.”
In which we enter Guinea
It’s February of 2021. I know the Lord has told us to enter Guinea — in the same way He asked us to enter India and Kenya, in spite of COVID.
The Hard Question of Missions
By Mommy Emily Originally published on Desiring God, March 11, 2015. I was covered in red dust, the kind that sticks to your soles, the kind that smells of Uganda and its long bumpy roads, our white van a flash of Westerners on our way to visit a non-profit’s work. I...
Overcoming Obstacles in Liberia
By Mommy Emily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwjn9ynKQes It was evening in the town of Zorzor, Liberia. The air inside the church was thick with sweat and praise. Arms raised, feet moving, bodies swaying, shoulder to shoulder. Up front, Pastor David Zawu was deep in...
In Which We Enter Kenya
They leave, not knowing whom they are going to meet, knowing only that the Lord has shown us in the Spirit a very humble man, a man gentler than any man we’ve met before, in a place of great poverty and many trees, a pastor who is faithful and who is expecting The Lulu Tree because God has already prepared him.
Revival in Sierra Leone — & the Battle to Enter Kenya and Guinea
–by Mommy Emily The Forgotten Villages lie beyond Lil’ Scary River, a long-winding path of water through Sierra Leone’s remotest bush, where crocodiles lie in wait as you ease past, kneeling in a canoe hewn out of a tree. Little boys, barefoot, silent, guide these...
South Sudan Goes Sustainable
By Mommy Emily She rises, alone. Dusts the tattered mat she’s slept on. The sun rises too, like a blood orange in a blue bowl. It’s hot in this desert of Nimule, South Sudan. Somewhere a rooster crows, like it’s clearing its throat. Minutes later, people are gathering...