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# George Williams and the Birth of the YMCA Standing before Juxon House on St Paul's Churchyard in 1844, George Williams—a young draper working and living above the shop—gathered eleven fellow clerks who shared his conviction that young men needed spiritual guidance and moral support in the rapidly...

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Juxon House, St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4

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Here in 1844 George Williams with eleven other young men employed in the City of London who shared his zeal and vision founded the Young Men's Christian Association in a drapery house on this site in which he worked and lived. From its beginning in this place inspired of God the Association grew to encompass the world.