Our vision is creating spiritual ecosystems for the future generations. Intercultural Mosaics is a New Worshiping Community sponsored by Davis Community Church. Mosaic provides a unique opportunity to create a “proximity space” where the Christians and non-Christians can interact meaningfully with each other (Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church). The proposed NWC wou
ld lend itself to outreach through hospitality, enabling Davis Community Church(DCC) to more fully meet, live with and know our neighbors. Since the original word for hospitality – “philoxenia” -- literally means the ‘love of strangers,’ Christians were (and are!) being called to an attitude of welcome not only to other believers, but also to those who are `outsiders.'
Mosaics Mission Statements:
1. Growing a learning, caring, transforming, spiritual community with “koinonia” to disciple Gen Y-Z and all generations for 21st century ministries. (Original mission, with expanded generations)
2. Creating missional ecosystems in inherited churches to become missional hubs for intercultural people (Ezekiel’s vision).
3. Breaking boundaries to expand territories of intercultural ministries for local and worldwide evangelism (Jabez’s prayer). To evangelize Gen Y-Z more effectively, Mosaics began its journey in 2013. The journey focused on intense social media and person-to-person outreach to Millennials living in the Sacramento Metropolitan Area.
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Our ministry dramatically changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. When we changed all of our gatherings in virtual space, mostly on Zoom, stretching from Friday afternoon through Sunday evening,
many new participants joined from all over the world for our 12+ gatherings. Since the pandemic, we have been constantly receiving 6~9 newcomers each week, many who are continuing to be part of Mosaics. Three of them became teachers and many of them want to be leaders. Our local presence dramatically shifted to global presence in 1.5 years. Our in-person ministry dramatically shifted to virtual in a few weeks. The age span continued to expand. The ethnic diversity expanded dramatically as well. Mosaics’ original focus on building a local community of Gen Y-Zers has transformed into a global community for all generations, all cultures and languages, and needs to shift to offering online and in-person engagement. This transformation was unplanned and led by the Holy Spirit. Mosaics became Intercultural Mosaics—intercultural salad bowls by crossing boundaries of time, locations, cultures, languages, races, identities, ideologies, history, religions, and all/any barriers. For more information, please contact Dr. Stephen Moon at [email protected] or 916-217-5470 (cell). Thank you so much and looking forward to meeting you soon!
