Staff
Shane Adkisson, Lead Pastor & Cultural Architect
Shane's been married to Dee Dee for 18 years. They have awesome kids--a thirteen year old son, Riley and a nine year old daughter, Shelby.
They've served churches in the St. Louis area and Chicago for about 16 years and then moved into the city of St. Louis to embark on the wild adventure of building this community we call Mosaic!
Personal strength themes:
Achiever, Positivity, Futurist, Activator, Belief
Favorite movies:
Braveheart, Gladiator, The Matrix, A Christmas Story (the tongue to the flag pole movie), Most (awesome foreign short film), Bella, Cinderella Man and Slumdog Millionaire
What I'm reading lately:
Art of the Start--Guy Kawasaki
Disciplines for the Inner Life--Benson & Benson
A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God--Larry Osbourne
Favorite things to do:
Going to my kids' school & sports events
Dreaming and thinking outside the box ("What box?!)
Telling my wife how hot she is
Jonathan Shell, Worship and Creative Arts
Jonathan has lived in the St. Louis area for most of his life, with the exception of a brief stint in Joplin, MO for college. He has a wife, a cat, a dog and affinities for Bruce Springsteen and all things barbeque.
What I've been listening to as of late:
Soujourn's Christmas music, The Avett Brothers, fun., AA Bondy, NPR.
The last three books I read:
The Prodigal God by Tim Keller, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
The last three movies that I've watched and rated highly on Netflix:
Billy Elliot, Anvil: The Story of Anvil, Everything is Illuminated.
Brad Podowski, Media
Shortly after surrendering his life to Christ in October 2005, Brad and his wife Becky moved from the suburbs of Chicago, leaving all of their friends and family behind, to help start Mosaic. Brad studied film and video at Columbia College of Chicago and has since gone on to produce a couple of television show pilots, several short films and has recently completed a feature length screenplay. He currently works as a freelance graphic designer, videographer/editor and painter.
Who Brad's listening to:
Jack Johnson, John Coltrane, Sufjan Stevens, Jars of Clay, Beck, Tracy Chapman, Widespread Panic, Stevie Wonder
Favorite Movies:
O Brother Where Art Thou?, Taxi Driver, Fargo, Cronos, It's a Wonderful Life, Scanners, Eraserhead, Gone Baby Gone, Bella, The Birds, The Passion of the Christ, Blue Velvet, Maltese Falcon, Children of Men and many more...
Books I've read lately:
The Culturally Savvy Christian, 23 Minutes in Hell, The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
