WHY MECHANICSVILLE

Mechanicsville is near and dear to our hearts. We believe this love for our area has been cultivated by God for the purpose of planting a church. After finding out nearly 45% of Mechanicsville was completely unchurched, we knew there was a deep spiritual need in our community.

We sincerely believe the local church is most effective when it is just that: local. Mechanicsville is our home. While each of us may have jobs or recreations that take us into other parts of the greater Richmond area, our home—our community—is Mechanicsville. In the New Testament, the apostles and their fellow ministers left us a pattern for planting local churches, and while modern travel and communication have made regional churches more possible, we believe this pattern is still more effective, even in our more technologically advanced age.

BEHIND THE NAME

In Japan, there is a process known as kintsugi, in which a skilled artist repairs broken vessels. Using powdered forms of gold, silver, or platinum mixed with resin, the artist takes the pieces of the broken vessel and carefully repairs it, creating a beautiful pattern from something that was broken beyond recognition. In fact, these mosaics made from broken pottery often become more highly prized for their filled-in cracks than the original vessel.

Likewise, we believe that God takes our broken, sinful, and depraved lives and restores us by his mercy and grace in Jesus Christ. In doing so, he makes our lives less about who we once were and more about the precious grace that he uses to forgive our sins and adopt us into his family.

We are each a mosaic of broken pieces, taken from the depths of depravity and restored to the heights of grace. But it doesn’t stop there.

When God grants us mercy for our sin and gives us grace to become children of God, he brings us into community with fellow believers in the Church, and he gives us gifts with which to serve our brothers and sisters in Christ. This, too, makes a beautiful mosaic of different gifts, talents, abilities, resources, cultures, and life experiences that he allows us to use for his glory and our good.

That’s why we’re called Mosaic Church.

HAVE QUESTIONS?

It’s hard to put everything you could possibly want to know on a website. We’ve done our best to lay out the basics, but we’d love to connect with you on a personal level. If you have any questions, send an email to hello@mosaicrva.com.