Central Values
Nations
Jesus came to proclaiming the Kingdom of Heaven where the family of God, made of people from every tribe and tongue, might find life to the full, together in Christ. This Kingdom is for now and eternity.
(Revelation 7)
Neighborhood
Jesus calls us to love our neighbors, especially those he puts in immediate proximity, and live integrated “hands-on” lives with our those also working to bring shalom to our community.
Next Generation
Counter to the paradigms of His time, Jesus taught his disciples to live and value children. We embrace this teaching and recognize that an investment in children is a deposit of love to the world to come.
New Family
We believe Jesus left His family, to create family, for those who do not have family. For this reason we are always asking, “God where would you have us start a new church family”. We are convinced that New York does not need another spiritual institution, but longs for new families.
Affiliations
The Evangelical Covenant Church
A multiethnic movement of 875 congregations in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world. The ECC values the Bible as the word of God, the gift of God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ, the call to extend God’s love to a hurting world, and the strength that comes from unity within diversity.
Central Theological Paradigms
1) God is Always Present & at Work.
God is active and so we do not beckon him to come down from a distance, we instead learn to wake up to God's presence in and around us.
2) God is like Jesus
When we have questions about God and God's character we look to Jesus. He is the exact representation of God and we look to Him to understand the way of God.
3) God Meets us in Reality
God does not meet us where we should be or where we think we could be, but where we truly are. This means that self awareness, honesty, and repentance are instrumental in our experience of God's love.
4) What God wants to do through you, God does in you.
What God will do through us, he wants to first do in us. Our spiritual being precedes our spiritual doing.
5) The Goal of Spiritual Formation is Divine Union
This means that our aim is not increased morality or a ticket to heaven, the goal of our spiritual formation is intimacy with the one who loves us and pursues us, all else flows from this.
6) We experience the love of God through embodied participation
We don’t place our faith in a faith, we place our faith in a person. This means that small acts of trust and surrender not only show a growing faith in Jesus, but also becomes the vehicle in which we experience God’s presence in an increasing way.
Brief History
In 2013, Dan and Amanda Sadlier moved their family of 7 (now 8) to NYC. Their understanding and experience of the gospel of Christ was simple. “Jesus left his family to create family for people that do not have family”. They opened up their apartment, and invited people in, and the rest is history. In 2014 Hope Church Roosevelt Island (later to be named Mosaic Church NYC) was officially launched as a “global church for a global neighborhood”. In 2020 the second Mosaic Church began to take root in West Queens. As church number two began to form as “Mosaic West Queens”, the Mosaic Community Center and the third Mosaic Family, led by Simon and Rut Padilla (Mosaic Latino) started to take root as well. The Mosaic Church NYC family shares values and theology beliefs, while looking and even feeling different based upon the different geographical locations they find themselves in.