Axiom...A Year Old

Last year at about this time we started Axiom, the student ministry of New Community. We started with 4 high school students and 2 middle schoolers. Our high school met in the living room of Bob and Margaret McNaughten. It was a simple bible study with food and games.

It was a risk, and what some would call stupid because critical mass is important, but we kept high school and middle school separate. We felt like that was important, they needed their space and an environment created specifically for them.

The entire year we spent time connecting with each student that walked through our doors, not only on campus, but even more in their social networks, myspace, facebook. There where countless hours spent on campus, at events, athletic and fine arts. We served, we loved in the last year. We took time learning the stories of these students. We studied their culture through their stories and by what we saw with our own eyes.

Over the last year we worked very hard, not as a ministry looking from the sidelines coaching, but as a movement who would get messy in the game, who would win with the team and lose together.

In the last year we started Serve, leading students to becoming Jesus here, in their home, their campus, and in this community. Students logged THOUSANDS of hours serving, leading small groups, planning, and being a part of what we call Axiom. Students began living out a love that is not selective.

This past year over 30 students began discipleship in Axiom D. Twice a month students are being invested in by a mentor, father or mother figure, maybe even what a student sees as a big brother or sister. Life change is happening and students ARE moving toward God.

Axiom has seen over 20 students come to know Jesus and clothe themselves in Christ through baptism. That is Massive within itself. Over the last year, students took part in over 20 to 30 trips locally and across state lines. Many, MANY decisions have been made.

So with only scratching the surface of the last year, a movement has begun. A year ago we started with 6, and this week Axiom will lead 100 to 120 students in sweet harmony. What began as something that was manageable with a few, has now turned into something bigger than anybody that makes up Axiom. We have only just begun. This year, WE WILL see new faces every week. We will alone serve thousands of hours. Students will lead in creating and redeeming culture. Our trips will not only cross state lines, but we will go global. A movement that started in a living room in Hoschton, Georgia will soon influence hundreds, thousands of lives here and in Jackson County and abroad. Welcome to Axiom, welcome to this revolution!

To the team: God, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, Beth and Ron Hubers, Kelly and Gregg Therieau, Jeremiah and Tracy Eye, Jenna Monforte, Heather and Mike Swint, Becky and Kevin Flannery, Dave and Tiffani Scheel, Lynn Mulvey, Bert Blackburn, Greg Troxell, and those to come, THANK YOU. WE are who WE are because of you!