pivoted , we stayed the same to our core and the way that we expressed it was the thing that changed .
Even six months to a year and a half , we were still being flexible even though all of the restraints were the same . We were being flexible and the way it worked two weeks in , was not the way it worked a year in . And so , we had to pivot . It ' s always just being in tune with what God was doing . We were all at home too . So , it was about , “ How are we engaging in church ?”
Is this really engaging people and having to guess , for the most part of , if this isn ' t really speaking to us and our families , how do we pivot ? How do we change it ? How do we keep it fresh and keep it new ? And so that really keeping in the core of who we are as a church and who we are as people was the most important thing because at the core we ' re moving with God , no matter where it leads in any situation . It was the same in that way , where we just had to continue to be flexible , continue to move with what we saw God doing . And even with what we didn ' t see God doing since there was a lot more of that , not being sure what was happening . It was just being flexible , I think .
[ WM ] You must have been so excited to again travel to Wyoming for your songwriting retreat last year and develop and entire project of songs indigenous to Mosaic . No covers , just your own experiences captured and chronicled for all to hear . What can you tell us about the songs written for This is How I Thank the Lord ? I will ask you about some of the individual songs in a bit .
[ Carlos Pimentel ] Yeah . I love that this question is connected to going back to Wyoming . That was definitely one of the benefits of slowing down to our every Sunday routine of meeting in person , preparing a gathering , and performing and worshiping together . It ’ s something we missed when we were in the middle of the pandemic . But also , not having that , it opened a whole new world for us for almost everyone who ' s part of our team . Mosaic and music are just a portion of what we get to do . We all do a bunch of different roles connected to the everyday , creating community and running our campuses . And during the pandemic , we got to spend so much more time writing songs and working on the production .
We basically took two years , a whole two years from the moments that we started writing these songs to the moment that we ' ve released the album . In the past , we couldn ' t find more than a week in a year where we could all be together and simply be working on an album . So , going back to Wyoming for the first time in two years was like going the first time in forever . We had this much time just to work on the songs