{"id":1836,"date":"2018-11-12T19:47:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christouraxiom.com\/?page_id=1836"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:23:57","slug":"the-history-of-axiom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christouraxiom.com\/about-axiom\/the-history-of-axiom\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Axiom"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Our risk began with uprooting. Even the thought seemed absurd. Why would we, a group of twenty-five missionaries, leave stable and defined ministries for a life and a calling less explicable? What prompted us to move north from Mercy Ships at Youth With A Mission, Tyler,\u00a0Texas\u00a0and all that was familiar?<\/strong><\/p>

We carried no tidy package or plan directing what we would create in our new venture, but felt a gentle prodding, as if God was inviting us to be a part of a movie still in the making. Our heart for the un-churched and orphaned generation beckoned us on.<\/p>

In the mid-nineties, God began gathering a like-minded group of friends\u2014both in world-view and in ministry philosophy. We were a group of people who yearned to live with Jesus as our center, as our very life, and to minister from that place of profound intimacy. Some of us had worked together for years at Last Days Ministries in East Texas, while others came from Youth With a Mission.<\/p>

As we worked, talked and dreamed together, we longed to create a ministry that would be built around two priorities: learning to love God more, and learning to love people well. We envisioned this ministry moving to a Jesus-centered rhythm that would guard these priorities and reach the unique people groups to which we felt called: the spiritually and physically orphaned.<\/p>

Our hearts desire was to \u201cbe Jesus\u201d to a generation who are skeptical towards the absolute claims of science and spirituality, yet remain open to both. We longed to reach the masses who rarely darken the door of a conventional church, and who are often void of a relevant witness of the Kingdom of God.<\/p>

So, in 1998, in response to this stirring, we began to meet together for times of prayer and discussion. The Northeast region of the States, with its educational, post-modern bent, immediately drew us. After touring eight cities, we felt that New Haven, Connecticut was an excellent city to pioneer a ministry community called YWAM \/ Axiom.<\/p>

Axiom<\/i><\/h2>

noun<\/i>\u00a0– self-evident indisputable truth.<\/p>

New Haven met the following criteria that we had established:<\/strong><\/p>