As he tends souls on Mosaic’s Axtell, Neb., campus, the Rev. John Gosswein shares the joy he finds in his faith. One soul, now at rest, provided much of the inspiration behind his work. His son, Jimmy, was a resident of the school for 14 years, until his death. He is...
This post originally appeared as a story in Mosaic’s Centennial book, The Reason We Exist: Stories of Mosaic’s Call to Serve. My visit with the surviving sisters as I prepared this story for the book revealed the joy they experienced as summer workers on one of...
Kris Johnson tears up every time she talks about her son’s life before he came to Mosaic. “We hit our hardest spot when Noah hit puberty,” she said. “We knew that we had to do something different.” Without the proper support, Noah, who does not speak, became a danger...
If Wartburg seminary student Dara Stull could share only one lesson from time she spent with Mosaic last summer, it is “Be not afraid.”“People get really nervous by the thought of working with people with intellectual disabilities,” she said. “They’re afraid that...
