Tony's Girls Home

If you have been reading this blog for a while you have heard me talk about Tony. Today I am going to share a little bit about his ministry and how they blessed us. 

Tony helps run a girls home. It is kinda of like the boys home that I have talked about...except with girls. He helps get young girls off the street, gives them a home, and shares the love of Christ with them. The girls learn how to dance, sing, and make jewelry. They then raise money by putting on performances.   

It was so evident in the way that he talked about these girls that he truly loved them as if each of him were his daughters! What an amazing example of a Godly men for these girls!

We did not work directly with the girls home but we were blessed enough to be able to go to a performance of theirs one night. And it was quite the performance!!!! They set up chairs for us and made us feel like the most honored guests. They even sang a welcoming song for us and incorporated each of our names into the song! It was very sweet. They did such a great job pronouncing all of our names and we LOVED it. In fact...through out the rest of our stay in Africa we all had that song stuck in our head. We'd be throwing bricks and singing the song "how do you do lexie how do you....lalalala" . Hahah!! It is quite a catchy song I tell ya.

Here is a video of the song :) (sorry I do seem to be a bit shaky with the camera....)Enjoy! Oh and the cute little girl in the tan plaid skirt is the one that says my name at 2:11 seconds into the song :) You have to listen for it. 

After lots of singing from them they then invited (or more like pulled us in) to dance with them!! They of course thought that it was hillareous...because white people just don't know how to shake it like them. But we had fun trying.

After some dancing Tony had each of us go into the middle and introduce our selfs...

After introductions we enjoyed some time meeting the girls. I loved talking with them...and of course...they each wanted their pictures with us. So I got about a zillion of these kind of photos. And I love each and every one. 

beautiful girls. 

This sweet girl (pictured below) especially touched my heart. Her name was Violet. She asked me many hard questions like..."Do you have a father? And a mother too?!?!" I told her that she too has a father...a heavenly father. 

More to come...later.