Our Story

Why Marshalltown

As more people started to drive from the Marshalltown area to Ames for Cornerstone's Sunday church gathering, we started to dream about what it would look like to start a local church with similar values to reach Marshalltown.

This church family would enjoy the same biblically-based teaching and commitment to community as Cornerstone while allowing for them to engage in the local community.

A Sending Church

Cornerstone Church in Marshalltown launched its services on Easter morning of 2021, however the real beginnings of the church go much further back then that.  
In Summer of 2022 mosaic church was officially relaunched.
We have a desire to be a church that is helping to plant more churches in the future.  We understand that we are here not just for Marshalltown, but to continue to send out families to reach new communities as well.

Steve & Brooke Bensema

Steve Bensema is the lead pastor of this church plant. He and his wife, Brooke, have been married for 16 years and have four fun and energetic kids. They lived in Ames for eight years, and during that time they were attending Cornerstone.
When we started praying the 10:02 prayer, asking the Lord to raise up more laborers, Steve felt called toward vocational ministry. In 2017, the Bensemas moved to Peosta, Iowa where Steve served as Teaching Pastor for a growing church there. Now they are excited to pursue working with the amazing core team in Marshalltown toward seeing what God is going to do here!

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Join us every Sunday as we gather to worship together at 10 am.
At the "Old Y" 108 Washington St | Marshalltown, IA