“Harambe!” —A Swahili word that means “all pull together,” and the official motto of Kenya that speaks of communities working together in unity. I encountered this word during a recent minister’s retreat I attended where a presenter spoke of her experience as a missionary to Kenya and the value of teamwork. Sally shared how harambe was the “Go team!” word whenever they worked on a project. The expectation was that all members of the team had a voice and added something that would make the outcome greater than if each one did something alone. It’s a case of the total is greater than the sum of its parts.
I was struck by fact that the concept of team can be so different from the inner workings of the western church that is often top down and authoritarian. Anybody who has worked in a team knows