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About
Fit Church United
Our Vision
Bringing Health to the Church and the Gospel to those Looking for Hope
FIT Church USA is fighting for the health of the church and the spread of the gospel. We are showing the love of Christ through health and fitness services. Millions around the country struggle with chronic illness due to poor health habits. Even within the church, there are large percentages of men and women who struggle daily with their physical condition and habits.
The efforts of FIT Church USA organization are rooted in the truths that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit and that we are to glorify God in our bodies. Our ministry is built on a love for God and neighbor. Our mission is to make good health practices a standard component of American church culture while demonstrating the love of Christ through fitness-based events to people who would likely never step foot in a church.
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To accomplish our mission, we have determined 4 primary vehicles.
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The Kingdom Blueprint Workshop
This is a 60-90 minute course that teaches the significance of a healthy lifestyle from a biblical perspective when providing key elements of a healthy lifestyle in a practical manner based on science and scripture. The result is that attendees leave with a simple and sustainable plan of action by which they can begin to improve their health.
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The FIT Church Ministry Program
This program equips individuals with a heart for health and the church to start and run empowering fitness ministries at their church. This system brings believers together, connecting church bodies and inviting their surrounding communities into a unique but exciting opportunity. Workouts, discussion notes, and promo materials are provided to simplify running their fitness ministry. Support is provided to ministry leaders to ensure they successfully grow their ministry to reach those in and beyond the church without reaching burnout or growing discouraged on their own. We aim to plant a FIT Church Ministry in 1000 churches throughout America.
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The Alive Fit Festival
These annual festivals are held throughout the US, providing fun, fitness activities, and gospel-centered entertainment to local residents and those willing to travel. This event aims to share the good news of Christ with those seeking hope while promoting a culture of good health amongst believers. These events will include live music, a 5k run/walk, pop-up fitness classes, health-focused vendors, prayer booths, and many activities for kids and families alike. The Alive Fit Festival is a celebration of health and the work of Jesus to give us life and life more abundantly. Because of Him, we are alive.
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The FIT For Heaven Program
This 12-week course guides students through gradually gaining control of their health habits while learning to commune with God on their health journey. Through this virtual course, students are provided with a nutrition strategy, health education, weekly support, and biblical encouragement as they pursue a renewed mindset and approach toward physical well-being. Donations from supporters and students fund this course. Those who cannot afford to contribute to the course will not be turned away but will be held accountable by removal from the course after two weeks of inactivity.
Our Vision
For The Road Ahead
In the next 3 years, we would like to have at least 100 churches in the FIT Church Ministry program with over 1200 active participants in total. We want to have hosted the Kingdom Blueprint Workshop at over 100 and 2 Alive FIT Festivals in Virginia Beach or Chesapeake.
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FIT Church USA is not as much catered to a demographic defined by economic status as it is spiritual status. We seek to love and empower the lost and the safe, the church and the surrounding community, the sinner and the saint. We want lives to be changed for the better, both physically and spiritually. Our desire is that through our efforts, churches would connect, close friendships would be born, and children would inspire other children to live healthy and seek Jesus. We want to take fitness classes in impoverished neighborhoods, lead community hikes, host mission trips, and show the world the love of Jesus through a means they have yet to see.Our various services will open the doors for internships and volunteers from many walks of life. We will connect with Christian schools and businesses, educating employees and students, encouraging them to live healthily and follow Christ boldly as they encourage others to do the same.
FIT Church USA will sweep through America with more than a message of good news and health.
We are reconstructing how the church sees fitness, and the world sees the church through a diminished and largely overlooked but severely needed ministry. Hospitals were started by Christians, and now so will the most effective system of preventative care this world has ever known. A system built on God's word and led by God’s people. Our organization isn't the foundation of this shift, Jesus is. FIT church is simply leading the movement.
Our Team
Matthew Gay
Owner/CEO
Summer Dawn
Community Success Manager
Aaron Gilbert
Head Fitness Coach
Amanda Kelly
Administration/Support
Meet Matthew Gay
The only reason I’m able to get so specific about what you might be feeling right now is that I’ve been there.
I grew up as a chubby kid with an amazing mother and an alcoholic father who had been hazed by the Vietnam war.
For most of my life, I felt embarrassed about the way I looked, had low self-confidence, and carried beliefs about myself that weren’t true around in my pocket at all times.
In 2009, I was in a fatal car accident that broke my pelvis and almost robbed me of my ability to walk, which left me at my lowest point.
I smoked half a pack of cigarettes a day, ate fast food at least once a day, and had very little strength in my broken and neglected body.
The next year, I got a job selling memberships at a gym… it’s OK if you chuckle.
Later that year, something that had been in the background of my life since I was a little boy, birthed a light. Jesus started changing everything about me.
I even decided to get into better shape. I tried intermittent fasting, keto, a sweet potato diet, workouts from magazines, pills, shots, you name it.
I had no idea what I was doing and was trying to do everything in my power, so nothing lasted long. I gradually began to idolize the results I had grown to so desperately want.
This led to a passion for fitness in my life that resulted in me becoming a fitness coach in 2013.
But I, like many believers, was still separating my walk with Christ and my health journey. Until one day, I heard a friend tell me about the importance of what I was doing from a biblical perspective.
As I began to entertain his idea, I started realizing that the majority of my hurdles weren’t actually rooted in nutrition and exercise but in my mental and spiritual condition.
This sparked a flame in me and gave me the permission I needed to pursue real transformation in my own life.
I went on to spend the next 8 years of my life perfecting my craft as a health coach and helping believers experience breakthroughs on their health journeys as well.
Once I began applying biblical understanding to the knowledge and experience I had as a fitness coach, my entire life changed, and so did the lives of those I was coaching.