The Lulu Tree prevents tomorrow’s orphans by equipping today’s families through the local church — with resources including sustainable farming methods and tools.
Pastor Sonnel Kamara is from Sierra Leone and has a heart for his people. Having overseen 40 evangelical churches, this humble farmer is seeking an abundant harvest for his heavenly Father. One of his greatest desires is to equip the local church by training up men and women in 12 different villages to care for their own children. He does this by teaching them sustainable farming methods, by providing microloans towards tools and fruit trees for the men, and by involving the men and their families on his farm.
In addition to equipping Pastor Sonnel with a seeder, thresher, plow, trailer, cassava machine and a storehouse to keep the produce and tools, in November of 2017, a 1979 Ford tractor was donated by the California government. Sonnel and the village men are now able to plant acres of rice, cassava and fruit trees. They also lend out the seeder and the plow to surrounding areas in order to plant seeds of the gospel.
In January of 2019 a rice mill was provided and over four rice farms were threshed and harvested by local villagers, sustaining more than a dozen villages during the famine season.
Pastor Sonnel is just one example of countless pastors across Africa who are investing in their communities through sustainable farming initiatives.
In Uganda, the pastors and teen mamas are engaged in a program called Farming God’s Way.
As we head back into South Sudan with the refugees, we are depending on the Lord to provide for seeds and tools so they can once again cultivate the rich farmland in their native country.
And in Liberia, Pastor Zawa is not only cultivating two different farms to feed his community, but raising goats.
By partnering with The Lulu Tree’s sustainable farming program, you will be allowing more of these pastors to not only raise up fathers who provide for their families, but plant seeds of the gospel.