MOSAIC is a club for Union University students to foster culturally diverse relationships and community on campus. The name MOSAIC is an acronym for “Making Opportunities, Strengthening An Intercultural Community.”
Students representing MOSAIC, Union’s Christ-centered diversity club, often wear t-shirts with beautiful, brightly colored designs on them as a way of celebrating racial and cultural diversity on campus.
“The MOSAIC organization helps grant students with opportunities to increase and enhance academic excellence through cultural engagement on campus,” said Stacie Bailey, president of MOSAIC and senior applied linguistics major.
MOSAIC seeks “to provide a community for all students, especially racial/ethnic minority students, which equips them with resources, support and meaningful opportunities to strengthen leadership and intercultural competency through Great Commandment thinking and action.”
Grace Ingram, junior zoology major and MOSAIC member, said that she joined MOSAIC because of the integration of the Christian community and the intercultural community.
According to Bailey, one of MOSAIC’s goals is to provide opportunities for leadership, community service and promoting a spiritually focused view on community. MOSAIC believes that Christian students should follow the teachings of Christ and be able to come together as individuals and accept each other’s differences.
“I want others on campus to know that MOSAIC is more than a random diversity club, but really grounded in God’s mandate for a diversified body of Christ,” said Ingram.
There are two Bible verses that are foundational for this club.
“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.” Revelation 7:9
“And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37-39
MOSAIC is focused on having a diverse view of the body of Christ and wants to encourage Union students to follow Christ’s example through living out these scriptures.
MOSAIC will be hosting an event for Hispanic Heritage Month on Oct. 8 from 4-6:45 p.m. and for Native American Heritage Month in November.
Photo courtesy of Union University.