Where Are We Staying?

While we are in Seattle this summer, we will not be staying in a hotel like we have over the past two years in Baltimore, MD. This summer a church has opened their doors for us. We will be staying in their facility which is actually a renovated community center. The church is called Harambee. This phrase means, "“Together pushing forward” in Swahili. It is a church plant in Seattle and is involved with a community called Soma. This community meets together in what they call "Gatherings". These are much like our church services but they look a lot different. They use a missional community model to live out their faith and their Christianity.

Many of these terms are foreign to us in the eastern part of the US. Much like we experienced in Baltimore, church takes on a whole new look, feel, and type when we get outside of what our own personal experiences with church. Churches vary in the way they reach their communities and their specific cultures and this is just one example of that. One of our goals in our mission trips every summer is to open our students eyes to the different ways of reaching people for Christ. The way we do it here is not the only way to reach unbelievers.

Here are some links for more info on...

Harambee

Slideshow of the Church

Soma Communities