Tommy Bina was at the center of his family, in life and in death. In 1967, Bill and Myrtle Bina moved from Chicago to be near their son, Tommy, who was living on Mosaic’s campus in Axtell, Neb., then known as Bethphage. Tommy died in 2007 and was buried in the...
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...
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...
