AFLEWO

Last night, Emily (my roommate) and I headed out with some other interns and attended an all night worship session called AFLEWO (short for Africa Let's Worship, an annual worship session). It began at 4pm last night, we got there at 9pm, and it went until 6am. We left around 5:30am. It was pretty incredible.

It was in the Winner's Chapel (awesome name, right?!), which seats about 27,000. And it was full to the brim-- there were people standing in the aisles and the back. There was a lot of singing, but also a good amount of prayer, of blessing the country in it's year of Jubilee, and of commissioning the people to go out. I am not sure if I was hearing people speaking in tongues at points, or if there were just so many different African languages being spoken that I couldn't differentiate between them.

Speaking of languages, about half the songs that we sang were in Swahili, which I understood approximately 0% of. That's not true. I understood Baba (father), Yesu (Jesus)... and I think that was it. Now, however, I have a handy translator app on my phone, right next to the currency exchange app. Huzzah for technology!

Today is a pretty awesome day as well. It's the 50th birthday of the Nation of Kenya, as well as the birthday in the year of Jubilee. Kenya has declared this whole year a new year, a new dawn, in the nation. With new leadership (and a transition that didn't include violence!), Kenya is trying to make this year something special. It's so cool to be a part of that!!

Well I gotta head back for dinner soon (I know, some of you are probably getting breakfast now), but check out the pictures in my album "There and Back Again" on facebook to see a few shots of the place. It was pretty incredible. I have videos of it, which I'll try to upload later! Also, if you want to know more about AFLEWO, check out the link below.

http://www.aflewo.com/2013/