by Lulu Stories | Feb 5, 2024 | Asia, Biblical Training, Equipping Mothers, Equipping Pastors, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Sustainability, Sustainable Projects
By Emily Theresa We’re quiet in the van. There are six of us – Mohan, in the front, a man from Sri Lanka who’s the hands and feet of the operation; Saroja, beside me – the Sri Lanka director who lives in South India; Steve, behind me – our Burundian Director of...
by Lulu Stories | Jan 16, 2024 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Gospel, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Sustainability, Sustainable Projects
By Emily Theresa It’s papaya season here in Sri Lanka. And this woman in the yellow dress, she brings us goblets full of the perfect golden fruit, cubed. We fill our plates with chicken stew, fish stew, coconut rice, lentil Dahl and green beans. Plastic chairs scrape...
by Lulu Stories | Dec 18, 2023 | Asia, Equipping Mothers, Father Issues, Happenings in Sri Lanka, Orphan Spirit
By Emily Theresa A little Buddha sits on the dashboard. He’s serene, hands folded in his lap, oblivious to the fact that he’s plastic. We’re in the middle of the Indian Ocean, on the “Teardrop of India,” an island country called Sri Lanka. Every crevice of this island...
by Lulu Stories | Oct 24, 2022 | Happenings in Sri Lanka, Lulu Mamas, Uncategorized
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...
by Lulu Stories | Aug 15, 2022 | Lulu News, Lulu Tree Updates, Our Vision
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...
