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The origin story of AOX is actually a very small part of the story that God has been writing with His people over time. Our beginning happened as the lives of a handful of twentysomethings and some church planters began to intersect in Grove City, a small community in western Pennsylvania, at the crossroads of I-79 and I-80. There was a common commitment to following Jesus into a lifestyle of prayer and mission and an emphasis on reaching and serving college students and recent graduates that drew that initial core group of people together.
Brad and Adriane McKoy were church planters that had been training college students and recent graduates to follow Jesus, make disciples and plant simple expressions of church on college campuses and in communities around the United States. After reading the biblical story of the church at Antioch, they believed that God was leading them to plant a local church community that would serve as a sending base for the spiritual family of students that they had been serving.