The Blueprint

Six years ago Ryan, Phil, and I were part of the launch team for a local Church. From a group of about 30 initial members, the church has grown to over 400 regular attendees, two services, dozens of community groups and hundreds of volunteers. During this time the three of us have been involved in both serving and leading various servant teams within the church. After 6 years of leading hundreds of volunteers we have developed organizational tools and strategies that are rooted in team theory but tailored to the modern church servant team. Mosaic is our companies effort to provide other churches with proven organizational and communication tools.
Mosaic is described as an ancient and contemporary art form which uses individual pieces of materials placed together to create a unified whole. Individual pieces (tesserae) are arranged in groups that move and flow (andamento) throughout the entire work of art. This fluid organization of individuals into a seamless whole is what we are creating with mosaic. Our tesserae are not pieces of tile or glass but people and our andamento is not a pattern in art but structure and organization of servant teams in the modern church.
Mosaic is not designed to be your traditional “membership/volunteer” database. While we recognize the need of some organizations to employ large complicated software to track everything from birthdays to anniversaries, and family trees to blood type we believe that most groups simply need a tool to manage the organization, scheduling, and communication between volunteers. Mosaic is intentionally simple. We don’t ask for members’ maternal grandmother’s maiden name. You don’t even need a complete organizational plan to get started. All you need are people…we’ll help you organize and stay in contact with them.
Over the next few months we will be posting more detail about features within the application and screen shots of the four core areas that comprise Mosaic.
Teams
All your info about your people and teams in one place
Messaging
Communicate easily with people and teams through Mosaic or email
Event Calendar
Tie your teams to events to easily track who is needed, when
Sub-Finder
Know when people can’t show up and easily find a replacement
These four core areas will work together to solve the major issues that surround team management even if you’ve never had to manage people before. The best part is that we’ve built Mosaic based on our years of experience (good and bad) managing servant teams. Our goal is to take the headache out of managing your servant teams and just let you serve.
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You guys thinking of adding project management tools? Projects, milestones, to-dos, assignments, etc?
We’ve discussed these elements and all agree that some form of simplistic project management has a place in what we are doing. We’re just not sure how it would work together so we put that off till we can get a product out there. I would be interested to hear more of your ideas about it.
sweet site thx
Is this available for demo??
Andrew, not yet.
We went back and reworked alot of the core to make it more versatile. So we’re behind what we want to be. But hopefully soon we’ll have some posts showing functionality and beta testing.