that campus. So that’ s the closest relationship, because everything that Campus Pastor does has to be translated through music on the stage during the worship. The culture that the Campus Pastor and our Senior Pastor want to create has to be carried by that worship leader because that’ s the first thing that people walk into.
Seven years ago, our worship team was completely disjointed from the vision of Mosaic. Nobody engaged in worship and nobody came for the worship, people only came for the message. I just kept longing for the day that people wanted that, because I felt that it could change people’ s lives if we could set the tone. It could give that Pastor or whoever’ s speaking the attention of the room more if we were able to connect people with worship at the beginning. We always say you need to serve somewhere, you need to be connected, have friends, have roots, and build a foundation in Church before you ever are onstage. And this is truly so that you see the vision of Mosaic before you are ever attached to some platform. This is so that every single person has the opportunity to understand the heart of Mosaic. And the heart of Mosaic is not so you can make it on stage because we know you’ re talented. The heart of Mosaic is that you would serve regardless of where you want to be, and that you would serve where you’ re needed because that’ s the most important place you could be.
That anyone on our team would step offstage to go clean a bathroom, because we know that, that is just as important … that somebody’ s experience in the Church, the experience with the physical building of the Church, is just as important. That someone can find Jesus just by knowing that people can care about them, care about the environment, and that they care about engaging. It’ s so important that everyone goes through that journey, that everyone can understand that the mission of Mosaic runs deeper than what just happens on stage. That everything that happens on stage is just an outpouring of all of the hard work of all of the servanthood, and all of the faithfulness that has come before that. That has to come before them being on stage. And that way we can really trust the people who are on stage to carry the mission of Mosaic. So, I can’ t imagine not being fueled by the heart of Mosaic. All of the music that we’ ve written is because of the stories, is because of the mission, is because of what we see God do here through Mosaic. I could never think that we could do this on our own. I could never have a vision or a dream this big if it wasn’ t for the mission of this Church.
[ WM ] You now have five campuses, including one in Mexico who released an album in Spanish last year. As it relates to worship, what is the leadership structure between the campuses, and your approach sharing and replicating the DNA?
[ Mariah ] A huge part of at least the campuses here in L. A. has been that we communicate really well, and we’ re talking about what we’ re doing. All of our leaders came from our worship team. My favorite part of what I do, and I feel
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