Mosaic Knoxville

Dear Friends,

It was an incredible week at the Winshape Retreat in Rome, Ga. It felt like God brought our entire year full circle. It was the culmination of every thing we have been through and Kristi and I feel so full spiritually. We gained an incredible amount of understanding. Solomon says in Proverbs 4:7, "Though it cost you all you have, get understanding." It has felt like it has cost us almost everything at times, but God has been faithful. We truly feel we have recieved an abundance of understanding.

We have officially settled on the name of the church. It is Mosaic Community Church. Sunday night when I went to bed I was not able to sleep. The Lord was pouring into my heart a greater vision that is far beyond simply starting a church. I finally went to sleep at 4:30. I look forward to sharing it with you in the future. One thing I want to share is a name for the umbrella of what God was showing me. It is called Mosaic Knoxville. So we secured the names, mosaicknoxville.com and .org. I have my own email address todd@mosaicknoxville.com. Mosaic Community Church and many other things come under this umbrella. Our focus today is on Mosaic Community Church. Two areas we are focusing on right now is our Monday night prayer gathering and our first servant evangelism project.

Monday nights are going to be expanded and other facets of worship, prayer walking, teaching, etc are going to be included. We will follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. We believe it is time to begin to invite people to come to our church so we want to be sensitive to that and prepared.

We will not meet this Monday because of the holiday but Monday night, September 12th @ 7:00 pm; Tribe One building on Magnolia, we will begin a new phase of our church start.

The other emphasis is our first servant evangelism project. Kristi and I have been prayer walking and asking God to show us areas we can care about and give our attention to. One of the places that has grabbed our hearts is the church on Olive and Linden that we talked about purchasing. The property is in terrible condition. Stanley and I feel like we should contact the owners and ask if they would allow us to clean up the property. It is a real eye sore in the community. We have not decided on a date yet but I will let you know after I talk to the owners.

The Hardy Professional building that AME Zion has offered us is being renovated. It is moving along and should be ready in approx a month. How exciting it will be to have our own permanent temporary building.

Tuesday, Sept. 6 our proposal goes to Nashville to the Tn Baptist Convention. We have asked them for $40,000 a year and $10,000 of start up money. Please pray that we find favor in their hearts and they grant us what we feel we need.

Have a great holiday weekend. God bless. Todd