STORIES FROM THE LULU TREE
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The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s Trip, Part 4)
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s Trip, Part 4) By Mommy Emily It’s night in Kamassaralie Village, and the ants are crawling up my legs. They’re tiny and red, and apparently they like white skin. I discreetly try to rub them off my calves while sitting on the...
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s Trip, Part 3)
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s Trip, Part 3) By Mommy Emily I wouldn’t have noticed them if I hadn’t turned my head. A flash of color, and then we’d passed by. These two tiny children whose arms were like matchsticks. I was in western Africa, in a country...
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s trip part 2)
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily's trip part 2) by Mommy Emily It hits me at random times, this living with my heart in two worlds. It hits me as the plane slices through grey clouds touching down in Canada, and all I see is the white of snow like one long...
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s trip, part 1)
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily's trip, part 1) by Mommy Emily Chimpanzees line the highway, babies clinging to their mothers' fur, as we sit in the back of a white van taxi headed back to Uganda. I'm seated with my friends from Uganda. We've been visiting...
Distributors Not Manufacturers
Distributors Not Manufacturers by Joanne Viola, Treasurer “Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to the people.” (John 6:11, NLT) He climbed up the hill and sat down with His disciples. No matter where He went, a crowd followed Him. They...
The most difficult journey yet…
By Mommy Emily I've wrapped up 18 gifts from the thrift store for my kids to open, one for each of the days I'm gone. I've snuggled and wept. I've had a slumber party with dancing and games and too many stories, because tomorrow I will say goodbye to my family and...
Building a Sustainable Africa
by Mommy Emily *thanks to World Help for photos from my first trip to Uganda/Rwanda in 2014 Nearly six years ago now, emptied by a recent miscarriage and swollen with a writer’s pride, I stepped off the plane in Uganda, Africa, on a blogger’s trip, to be immediately...
Ebenezer: Mommy Emily Speaks about the Mama Kit Miracle
ebenezer noun eb·e·ne·zer | \ ˌebə¦nēzə(r)\ plural -s Definition of ebenezer 1usually capitalized : a commemoration of divine assistance One of the greatest things we can do as Christians on this long journey home is to "raise our Ebenezers" -- that is, to mark, as...
Thanksgiving for an Abundant Harvest
by Erica Hale It’s been just under a year since my feet last touched the deep red soil of Sierra Leone, since we walked through the villages and drove to see all the farmland being cultivated and visited the people across the deep waters of the Little Scarcies river,...
How to Care for the Jajjas
How to Care for the Jajjas By Mommy Emily “The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help…” ~ 1 Timothy 5:5 We almost miss her, a whisper of a silhouette leaning against the tree, but...