Jesus' birthday playlist.

With finals coming to a grand close and the actual Christmas season filling the air, I thought I would take a little leaf out of my sweet friend Megan's book and let you in on some of the songs I've been loving (blaring) lately. Note: this is a Christmas playlist that I've accumulated since I was a wee lass. Some of these are songs my family likes together. (i.e. don't judge)

If you've never used 8Tracks before, I'd consider looking into it. It's like Pandora, only it provides less of the unfortunate, what-on-earth-is-this-song lottery. It's also nice because it builds a list of the songs you've listened to, and after you've listened to a playlist all the way through, you can go back and listen to whatever song of your choosing, and, wait for it, you can skip songs endlessly. It also doesn't allow more than three songs from one artist or album, guaranteeing variety. It's great!

*steps off 8Tracks soapbox*

You can glean from some of Megan's blog gold >here<.

Merry Christmas!

1. Silent Night AARON SLATEN

2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, AARON SLATEN

3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, ANDREW BELLE

4. White Christmas, BING CROSBY

5. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, EMILY HEARN

6. Oiche Chiun (Silent Night), ENYA

7. Holly Jolly Christmas, THE FORMAT

8. O Come Let Us Adore Him, HILLSONG

9. Do You Hear What I Hear?, JOHN FRENCH

10. Santa Clause Is Coming to Town, THE JACKSON 5

11. Auld Lang Syne (Charity Medley), VARIOUS ARTISTS

12. Go Tell It On the Mountain, JOHN FRENCH

13. O Holy Night (Postlude), JOHN FRENCH

14. O Come All Ye Faithful, JOSH GROBAN

15. Silent Night, LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO

16. What Child is This, MATT WERTZ

17. Silent Night, PRISCILLA AHN

18. Away in a Manger, SHANE & SHANE

19. Go Tell It On The Mountain, SEABIRD

20. O Come O Come Emmanuel, SUFJAN STEVENS

21. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA

22. Do You Hear What I Hear?, VANESSA CARLTON

23. Little Drummer Boy, ALY & AJ

24. Happy Xmas (War is Over), CELINE DION

25. Carol of the Bells - Sing We Now of Christmas, BARLOW GIRL

26. Away in a Manger, BLAINE LARSEN

27. A Holly Jolly Christmas, BURL IVES

28. Angels We Have Heard on High, DAVID CROWDER BAND

29. Baby, It's Cold Outside, DEAN MARTIN

30. O Come O Come Emmanuel, ENYA

31. Silent Night, JOHNNY CASH

32. Little Drummer Boy, JOSH GROBAN FT. ANDY MCKEE

33. O Come All Ye Faithful, JUSTIN KIMMEL

34. Away In A Manger, MARTINA MCBRIDE

35. The First Noel, PENBROKE HALL

36. O Holy Night, SLEEPING AT LAST

37. O Come O Come Emmanuel, ZERBIN

Kenya: Day 2!

I wrote this on our second day and never got to post it, haha. Here goes!

Jambo! 

It's the end of day 2 and I'm already in love! It's their winter here, so it's been in the 60s-70s the whole time. We live with 7ish other Kenyan interns, and they are hilarious. It's the first time that I've been in a culture-clash situation where both sides actually understand and appreciate each other's senses of humor and it's not just small talk. I room with Alyssa and our adorable chef, Helen! She asked if Dolly Parton was alive today. She's the best. I can't really giggle about that though considering I've already asked "So like when is yalls Christmas here?" They were like uh.. December 25th? 

The girls are incredible! We were insta friends from the first day that we all were here! They love Jesus so well, and one of my favorite things about the program in general is that we all look really different in how we follow Him!

On Sunday we went to a church that was for American missionaries serving in Kenya! It was so powerful! The presence was thick. These people are laying their lives down 24/7 and it sorta seemed like this was their hour to be refreshed and relax with the Lord and other people that can relate well. It was so cool to be worshipping with so many people that were giving all they had in the presence of God! 

We were supposed to do outreach at the University of Nairobi today but apparently the students were doing finals. I'm really really looking forward to getting to the outreach! I just wanna share with people! These people are God's children and my heart is burning for more of them to walk in that identity! Heyoooo let's go let's go

We've learned so much already. The people here carry so much wisdom! We have lessons or "sessions" every morning where we all sit in our compound and just get into the word together and talk about what it means until we don't have anything left. Or at least that's what we've done so far. It's super challenging. The Kenyans eat the whole Bible for breakfast and just throw it up on us. (gross? sorry.) 

Keep praying! There are so many unreached people groups here. 

I love all of you! Thank you to everyone for your prayers and encouraging messages!! 

Kwa jeri! (Goodbye!)