We are a new church in town that’s coming to life, we welcome new faces, new experiences, new friendships, as we explore God's purpose in our lives. People just like you with hopes and dreams are coming together with a vision for community.
These people come from all walks of life, drawn together by a new awareness of God’s love. We want to be a people whose faith comes from a relationship with a God who loves us.
Mosaic Life Church is a place to belong where you can be the person you were meant to be... you can be yourself. We’ll share authentic community, loving relationships, spiritual journeys and purposeful living. You can be a part of it. – we’d love to meet you.
re-imagining church in West Michigan
Imagine a faith community
- where people from diverse backgrounds and races connect with each other in loving meaningful relationships.
- where people connect to God through passionate, creative worship.
- where people connect in faith to pursue a relationship with God.
- where people connect to serve God by serving others in purposeful ways.
- where people connect to our world to share faith and life.
that's Mosaic Life
The Vision - a new church, for a new era, connecting people to God and each other.
::Why mosaic life? ...
Mosaic Life seeks to establish a faith community that brings together people from a variety of races wherever they are in their spiritual journey, to explore and experience the transforming power of God’s love. This we believe is God’s design for humanity is a mosaic, where imperfect people, living in a fragmented world can be transformed by the power of God’s love to become a gorgeous picture of the best life has to offer. This biblical vision is the reason for Mosaic Life.
That is the vision in a nutshell to form a new kind of church guided by new applications of ancient truths, to meet spiritual yearnings of a new time beyond the modern era, which gathers a new community that breaks down walls of division among God's people.
In the words of Christian music group DC Talk;
A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is the passion of an Artist's heart
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope.
The "homogeneous unit principle" basically says that people are most happy when they're around people like themselves. It is a sociological description on human behavior, not a biblical mandate or a biblical principle.
The current reality
While there are churches and ministries that already exist around racial reconciliation, the reality is Dr. Martin Luther King’s words are as true today as they were thirty years ago. Sunday morning is still the most segregated time of the week. As our world has grown in its diversity our separation and segregation from each other has increased.
We are segregated by race, or ethnic heritage. Traditionalists are segregated from post-moderns, rich from poor. The churched are segregated from those who are spiritually searching or skeptic. We live in a fractured and fragmented world where God’s mosaic design is rarely evident. Still our world God’s world cries out for a different reality, a reality based on transformation not conformation, unity not uniformity, being color rich not color blind. A mosaic reality!
The Greater Grand Rapids community has seen a significant increase in its racial ethnic diversity. While there are many churches in the greater G. R. community there is still a significant lack of ministries that intentionally seek to gather together unchurched people from diverse people groups. I believe that God is at work to gather his gorgeous mosaic here in Grand Rapids. Mosaic is our response to God’s call to join with God in fulfilling that vision in the Greater Grand Rapids community.