there are many broken and wounded lives . How has Mosaic MSC addressed this dynamic ?
[ Mariah ] We are those people ! We ' re broken . I love the name Mosaic because a mosaic is broken and fragmented pieces that when they come together , make something beautiful and light shines through them .
We ' re in one of the most difficult locations . If you ' ve ever been to Los Angels , most people are extremely disappointed , especially by this street that we ' re on ( Hollywood Blvd ). Because it ' s glorified in movies and in everything that you see , but it actually just can be so incredibly disappointing . And I think that ' s what people experience when they come to L . A . They usually come here for a dream or to live something out because it ' s been so glorified , and then they come and they realize it ' s actually extremely lonely .
And it ' s really a lot harder than it looks to become what you think you can become . And for us to be where we ' re at in Hollywood is such a symbol , in the midst of literally the heart of some of the darkest places or the most broken people , there is still beauty in it and there can still be redemption in that . And so , I think in our music , at the end of the day , we ' re all here in L . A ., a lot of us because we had a dream or because we came here for something . And we ' re all broken even though we found Jesus and there ' s no one that is too far gone , they can ' t be redeemed .
So , I think for us , we don ' t say , “ Oh , there ' s people here that are broken , that are unhealthy .” We just say , “ That was us .” And we can attest to the fact that Jesus makes beautiful things out of broken people . I love that our team is always growing . You don ' t always see the same people singing on the records or a part of our team . We ' re the worship team of Mosaic and that ' s really just what it is . I love that we can continue to change because people just continue to find healing , to find Jesus , to find redemption . And those are the same people , we were all the same people walking down the street without a clue . And whose life we ' ve changed .
[ Carlos ] We love our city , the songs that we write , and the stories that we find in our community . It ' s the people that live in Los Angeles , that live in Hollywood . There are tons of young people who ' re pursuing acting , pursuing music , and fashion . One of our worship leaders , Brooks , posted this the other day I thought it was so beautiful . “ When we sing our songs , we are literally thinking of people in our community . Someone that I know is going through a hard time , that I know that there ' s a song that we have in the album that is a response to their problem . Whatever they ' re going through , there is a song that will help the person find the healing or the love , or the strength that they need to find .”
And they form everything that we do . Like I was saying before , music is just a small portion of what we get to do . The rest of the time we are with our friends , we are with our people .