New Direction Church may have only begun to hold services in March of 2016, but the vision was planted by God long before that. At the age of 13, Matthew had the call to see a church in our community where every person from any background: black or white, rich or poor, young or old, could come and worship the Lord together.

Matthew will be the first person to admit that he spent many of the next years of his life running from that vision. However, it is during those “lost years” that God continued to mold in Matthew’s heart the principles and foundations that would eventually become the heart of New Direction. It is from those lessons that New Direction gets its name. To truly live the life people are destined for, they must drop their own pursuits and follow a “new direction” — that direction is Jesus.