Raining Faith Outreach

Raining Faith Massage, 
Beautiful Children,
 and Global Hope

As part of Matthew's education at Boulder College of Massage Therapy he participated in various community service projects and internships. He began to think about where he wanted to participate in internships and what he wanted to learn from them. One of his goals as a therapist would be to show compassion to his clients and hope that they would feel that compassion through his touch. 

He had numerous close friends from his church that had served on Mission Teams in the country of Romania. There they had helped orphaned children in various capacities. Feeling the call of God to go to this country, Matthew designed an internship in which he would offer massage to the children of Romania. BCMT approved the internship and he recruited a close friend, Robin Braden, to act as his supervisor for the trip. Robin is a physical therapist and partner of Anchor Physical Therapy in Broomfield.  Matthew saw this as a tremendous opportunity to expand upon his faith and education at the same time. He was a member of a team sponsored by Global Hope, a not for profit organization dedicated to helping the children of Romania. See the links page for more information about Global Hope and the wonderful work that they are doing. 

The trip had a remarkable impact on him. Robin and Matthew worked in two different facilities in the city of Arad, which lies on the western border of Romania. They split their time between the Babes orphanage and a Recouperation Center. At Babes, one hundred fifty children between the ages of one and three live at the orphanage. Matthew and Robin worked with a massage therapist in addressing the needs of a few of the children. At the Recouperation Center they worked with a physical therapist who has done some miraculous work with children that had special needs, including both emotional and physical disabilities.

After making a subsequent trip to Romania with his wife Pamela, they answered a call from God to move to Arad, Romania in June 2003.  There the Gibble family worked as missionaries with Global Hope, Inc overseeing two Christian Family Homes and acting as Directors of Romanian Operations for Global Hope.  They returned to Colorado in November 2005.  

In choosing a name for his business, Matthew wanted something that would relate to his spiritual beliefs and life as a follower of Jesus Christ. After playing with various names he came up with Raining Faith Massage. He prays that through a leap of faith God will bring him the clients to see his dreams become a reality. In small a country miles from his home in Broomfield, Colorado a dream and a business were born. Here's praying that it continues raining faith!

Here are some pictures of Matthew providing
therapy to handicapped children at the
Recouperation Center in Arad.