people don’t know Jesus. So, what we did pastor and the preacher. So, he would just put We had not been writing songs before…until
was we put this focus on arts in general. There the guitar down and be all sweaty and start to about three years ago. Now we have tons of
was music, but there was not as much as you preach! This has always been something that’s songs and tons of writers. It’s just been really
would hear today at our church. There were a been on his heart. So, it was really cool to be cool over the last few years to see how God
lot of other elements of worship that we used. able to know that and step into that – kind of has blessed that.
It really worked for what we were doing in the take his vision and try to implement it. So, we environment of being in a nightclub and being had under ten people on the team and now we [WM] You talk about a shift in your worship
“not ordinary” and kind of changing the game have like 60-70 people on the team. It’s created ministry that happened three years ago. Did
a little bit. Over the last few years, we have just like a really cool wave of worship. In Los this happen quickly or was it a slow process?
focused on kind of just stripping that back Angeles, we obviously have a lot of really young and what it looks like having a strong worship people, and a lot of these people are not just [Mariah] Yeah, so I went to one of the guys
community and write music. Five years ago, young in age… they are also young in their on our worship team who is a producer. I went
when I stepped into worship, there was like faith. They came to Jesus at Mosaic. So, it’s to his studio just to work on something else, to
7-8 people on the team and they played every been really cool to be able to teach them and write a different song… and he was like, “I have
week. I was a volunteer for most of my time at show them and create a culture in the church this idea for a worship song.”
Mosaic and so I just kind of went with the flow of worship and what that means right off the and tried to do whatever I could. But when the bat. A lot of times, that creates just a really cool I had never done that before and I was like,
worship pastor stepped down and I stepped in, energy of people that are just so passionate “We should totally try to write this song!” So,
it was a big shift in culture and I wanted to really and on fire because they’ve just found this we wrote a worship song that day and we were
bring us into a real community of worship and relationship with Jesus. So, it’s a totally different like… “We should do this again tomorrow.” And,
make our church value worship and singing as dynamic than with a “normal” worship team, we did it again the next day… and we were like,
a whole more than we did before. My dad has but it’s really special for us and we’ve seen “We should do this again tomorrow…” and it
a huge heart for that, and that obviously comes some amazing growth. In the last three years just kept rolling and rolling. We pulled people in
from his vision and him wanting that… for us to we’ve started writing songs, and it’s all been and so there was like a group of three or four
write our own music – he’s always wanted that. just because of the narrative and the life that we of us kind of right off the bat that are just really
all have at Mosaic. passionate. It had never worked before…we
had all tried writing worship songs before, but
When he started Mosaic, he was the worship
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