Common Sense???
Mosaic Church is surrounded by bars serving in the thousands on every weekend night. How can Mosaic control or be responsible for these people's intoxicated behavior once they leave one of these bars?
Why don't the Mayor's office focus it's resources on protecting us from the drunk drivers, fights, shootings, and other crimes that are taking place inside and outside many of these bars every weekend?
Why don't the Mayor's office spend it's time monitoring the adult bookstores or strip clubs downtown?
Mosaic Church's outreach services on the weekend nights are always family friendly, smoke free, and non-alcoholic. You are welcomed any weekend to compare for yourself - between the crowd that hangs out at Mosaic Church or the crowd the hangs out at the downtown bars or adult bookstores.
We are in need of volunteers for our - Safe Ride Home Program. On weekend nights we help those who are buzzed or drunk from the surrounding bars to get home safely. If this is something you would be interested in helping with contact the church. Please note we are not here to judge the downtown bars or adult bookstores. As the church we are simply here to help them and love them. If this is your heart, Mosaic could use your help as we share the love of Christ to the nightlife community.
Fathom Performing & Visual Arts Center has been providing free art classes for middle & high school students who come from low income families for the past eight years.
Classes for the fall semester:
Martial Arts: Mon - Fri (5PM - 6PM)
Break Dancing: Sun & Wed (7 - 9PM)
Photography: Wed 5PM
General Visual Arts 101: Tues & Thur (5 - 6:30PM)
Landscape & Body Sketching: Mon & Fri (5 - 6:30PM)
Landscape & Body Painting: Tues & Thur (7 - 8:30PM)
Fathom is a non-profit arts ministry that serves as an outreach of the Mosaic Church. We recently came under attack back in July from Mayor Littlefield for attracting "urban youth" to the tourist area downtown because of our arts outreach. The Mayor threatened to close us down if we continued to minister and reachout through the arts to this particular demographic "urban youth". I have stated before and continue to state that our "urban" students or if you prefer black students are great young people. They are not the cause of the crimes downtown. Fathom is also not the only reason black young people come downtown. We cannot be responsible for all black youth downtown even though we care for all youth regardless color of skin.
The good news is since the threat - we have had many classes, plays, concerts, dances, and gallery showings all involving many gifted black youth and Mayor Littlefield has not closed us down yet. I pray he has had a change of heart.
On a more positive note, just as I have invited the Mayor (he has not visited with us yet) - I want to invite everyone to come explore our gallery. I think you will be very surprised at the promising inspiration and hope these young people express through their art. We are second only to the Hunter Art Museum in gallery space. The gallery spans two floors over 15,000 square feet. Our gallery is open every Fri & Sat 7 -10PM or by appointment.
Name gone, but Fathom mission remains
Common Sense??? Mosaic Church is surrounded by bars serving in the thousands on every weekend night. How can Mosaic control or be responsible for these people's intoxicated behavior once they leave one of these bars?
Why don't the Mayor's office focus it's resources on protecting us from the drunk drivers, fights, shootings, and other crimes that are taking place inside and outside many of these bars every weekend?
Why don't the Mayor's office spend it's time monitoring the adult bookstores or strip clubs downtown?
Mosaic Church's outreach services on the weekend nights are always family friendly, smoke free, and non-alcoholic. You are welcomed any weekend to compare for yourself - between the crowd that hangs out at Mosaic Church or the crowd the hangs out at the downtown bars or adult bookstores.
We are in need of volunteers for our - Safe Ride Home Program. On weekend nights we help those who are buzzed or drunk from the surrounding bars to get home safely. If this is something you would be interested in helping with contact the church. Please note we are not here to judge the downtown bars or adult bookstores. As the church we are simply here to help them and love them. If this is your heart, Mosaic could use your help as we share the love of Christ to the nightlife community.
Pastor Tim
www.mosaicchattanooga.com>
Art, music programs struggle to survive
Fathom Performing & Visual Arts Center has been providing free art classes for middle & high school students who come from low income families for the past eight years.
Classes for the fall semester: Martial Arts: Mon - Fri (5PM - 6PM) Break Dancing: Sun & Wed (7 - 9PM) Photography: Wed 5PM General Visual Arts 101: Tues & Thur (5 - 6:30PM) Landscape & Body Sketching: Mon & Fri (5 - 6:30PM) Landscape & Body Painting: Tues & Thur (7 - 8:30PM) Fathom is a non-profit arts ministry that serves as an outreach of the Mosaic Church. We recently came under attack back in July from Mayor Littlefield for attracting "urban youth" to the tourist area downtown because of our arts outreach. The Mayor threatened to close us down if we continued to minister and reachout through the arts to this particular demographic "urban youth". I have stated before and continue to state that our "urban" students or if you prefer black students are great young people. They are not the cause of the crimes downtown. Fathom is also not the only reason black young people come downtown. We cannot be responsible for all black youth downtown even though we care for all youth regardless color of skin.
The good news is since the threat - we have had many classes, plays, concerts, dances, and gallery showings all involving many gifted black youth and Mayor Littlefield has not closed us down yet. I pray he has had a change of heart. On a more positive note, just as I have invited the Mayor (he has not visited with us yet) - I want to invite everyone to come explore our gallery. I think you will be very surprised at the promising inspiration and hope these young people express through their art. We are second only to the Hunter Art Museum in gallery space. The gallery spans two floors over 15,000 square feet. Our gallery is open every Fri & Sat 7 -10PM or by appointment.
Pastor Tim Reid www.clubfathom.com www.mosaicchattanooga.com>