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The Dawn of U
The second chance that makes first chances jealous.
A Sci-Fi LitRPG saga · a soundtrack · a real reentry mission
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On the morning his company, Halfway, rings the bell on the first trillion-dollar IPO in history, Christian Love receives a hand-written letter from Matthew Love, the man whose book started it all and whom he has never met. Then the story drops back through his life: a boy named as an insult, a soldier with a gift he can't explain, a man who builds Dream Teams that walk people home from prison.
In Meet Me Halfway, power only grows when it's spent on someone else. Every strength costs him something. Every person he lifts makes him stronger.
“Sincerity doesn't scale,” said Wall Street. It's the only thing that does.
The old game. Power by extraction: grab more, hold tight, climb over people. It works fast, and then it eats you.
The new game. Power by restoration. Lift someone, and your strength grows. A game mechanic and a moral law at the same time.
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The story is fiction. The movement inside it is real. Almost everything in the book has a real counterpart.
Book One of a five-book Sci-Fi LitRPG saga by Matthew Love.
In progressNine original songs. Every song is a character.
Listen nowThe uMattery Federation, Broken Champions and Dream Teams: the real work the story is about.
Being built nowPlanned with Creative Dawn. Pioneers help make it as singers, actors and writers.
Someday soonThe real movement
A family of companies built to give.
A business designed to give will outlast one designed to take. uMattery is the hub; around it sit a vault that protects the mission, a nonprofit reentry ministry, and six companies built to train, employ and house people coming home.
Where members join and the companies connect.
Protects the story and blueprints so the mission can't be sold off.
501(c)(3) reentry on the ground.
Studio → townhome → starter home → home.
God's Auto Garage. Repairs on camera; apprentice to owner.
“Gut and Grace” crews turn empty buildings into homes.
Salvage into furniture. “Dignity is found in the details.”
A teaching kitchen that trains Chef-Stewards.
The studio telling the story.
Twelve carry one.
A Dream Team is twelve ordinary people wrapped around one person in prison, a Broken Champion. Every member is a Waypointer. They start years before release, they're at the gate, and they're still there after.
Short and real. Five minutes counts.
Showing up inside the walls. Matthew 25:36, lived.
Words to read again on the worst night.
“Love must be funded to be consistent.”
“I'm the ride. Put the bag in the back.”
Food, a bed, a phone, an ID plan, a job path.
The one who was carried learns to carry.
Built for the cell block. If it works here, it works anywhere.
Simple, reproducible disciple-making training: tools, not rules, passed from one man to the next. 3 to 12 people, no technology. Look Back, Look Up, Look Forward.
Find a Person of Peace, map their circle.
A story of hope, a drawing at the chow table.
Groups that obey what they learn, then pass it on.
A simple church where they live.
One table becomes many.
Waypointers learn the same tools from the men inside.
You don't leave your purpose at the gate.
From broken… to becoming.
The 501(c)(3) reentry ministry at the heart of the work, in Indiana, with a heart for veterans. It runs the Dream Teams, the 4-Fields Academy and the First 72 Hours.
“We don't wait for men to earn dignity. We declare it.”
Restoring the heart.
Breaking the chains that still follow.
Who I am now.
Rebuilding what was broken.
Boundaries that make healing safe.
Owning your own future.
A life worth protecting.
“Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2
The Soundtrack
Every song belongs to someone in the story, and every song is a crossing: someone learning a language that isn't their own.
Under construction
Each part of the movement is getting its own home. Here's what's being built.
The Federation's home: join, learn, connect.
Site coming soonDream Teams, 4-Fields Academy, First 72 Hours.
Visit live site ↗The home of the story and the blueprints.
Site coming soonA place to land, then a ladder home.
Site coming soonGod's Auto Garage: glass walls, honest work.
Site coming soonGut and Grace crews.
Site coming soonSalvage made beautiful.
Site coming soonThe teaching kitchen.
Site coming soonThe studio behind the story.
Site coming soonDefied. Paid. Served. The roster of principled rule-breakers.
Site coming soonEncourage, Empower, Equip, Engage, inside the walls.
Site coming soonA parole and probation helper app.
Site coming soonEntrepreneurship training for the next generation.
Site coming soonBehind the scenes · the builds
66 ways this world could live on the web. Help us pick.
The people behind it
Real people. Real work.
The Pioneers
Pioneers are the founding members: the first readers, the first voices, the people who help build the story itself. Get on the list and you'll hear first when seats open in your state.
Pioneer is a membership, not an investment. There's no promised financial return. Sweat equity is earned through service, never bought. Joining the list costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Questions
A Sci-Fi LitRPG book series by Matthew Love, an original soundtrack, and a real reentry mission. In the story, people level up by giving instead of taking. In real life, Dream Teams walk with people coming home from prison.
Soon. The book, the full website and the Pioneer seats are being finished now. Get on the list and you'll be told first.
No. It's a membership. Nothing here promises money back or a financial return.
Yes. Broken Champions is a 501(c)(3) reentry ministry in Indiana. Dream Teams, Waypointers and 4-Fields training are how it works, and the uMattery Federation is building the companies around it.
A member of a Dream Team. Twelve Waypointers walk with one person in prison, through the gate and beyond, with a weekly rhythm of a call, a visit, a letter and $12 a week. You don't need to be an expert, just consistent.
Pioneers are the 3,000 founding members who launch the story and the movement. Waypointers are the Dream Team members who walk with someone inside. Pioneers are invited, by choice, to become Waypointers after their six months.
That's part of what Pioneers do: singers, actors, writers and builders help shape the story. Join the list and tell us what you're good at.
CEO of Halfway, and a man who calls himself a manager, not a leader. Named as an insult by parents who hated what the name stood for, he became the opposite of everything they intended.
His gift only switches on for someone else, never for himself, and every time he uses it, it costs him. He's unhurried, almost impossible to read, and quietly the most dangerous person in any room. He's cold only toward counterfeits, never toward sincere faith.
“I'm not going anywhere.”
Also overheard: “Most things don't.” · “I notice things.”
A pastor's daughter and a theological prodigy who can quote grace for anyone in the room, with surgical precision, except herself. She feels everything in song titles, speaks in game mechanics when it hurts, and carries something she believes disqualifies her from ever being loved.
When she sings, the room changes. She doesn't know why yet.
“If I have to be the Queen of Pain, I might as well own the aesthetic.”
From Houston's Fifth Ward. His father was locked up for something he didn't do and came home broken. His mother, Pearl, told twelve-year-old Mike the sentence that built him: “Don't you become bitter. Become useful.”
Today he's a prison pastor, the founder of the “You Matter” campaign and the architect of the Dream Teams. For 22 years he's been quietly searching for one man he's never met: the one who can carry what started inside a prison out into the world.
“Whif This.”
Always capitalized. Always followed by a pause.
Christian's best friend, and the most powerful woman alive. Immovable loyalty, patient to a fault, then suddenly, geologically angry. She doesn't pass legislation; she pours foundations.
She's spent her public life building homes for the people the world threw away, starting with a Fullway House in every prison. She has her own reasons. You'll learn them.
“I don't pass laws. I pour foundations.”
He wrote the book called Meet Me Halfway, built the movement behind it, and then vanished so completely that no photograph of him exists. He's Christian's spiritual father, though they've never met.
He narrates the saga, and he's telling you this story from somewhere very far away. He believes a person is not the worst thing they've ever done. He just isn't sure it applies to him.
A young artist with a country singer's blood and a question he's carried since he was twelve. His song opens the soundtrack.
His father wrote it as a poem. Ford turned it into something his own generation would hear. To answer him, his father has to cross into Ford's language, and that's “Answering With Mondays.”
Bridget, the President's Chief of Staff. Harvard-sharp, rapid-fire, one of the few people who walk into Christian's office without knocking.
Pearl Coleman, Mike's mother. She worked two jobs and paid off a Fifth Ward house a hundred dollars at a time. One sentence from her built a preacher.
Julian and Elias, two men from the Dream Teams. One didn't make it past day eleven, and his chair stays unfolded. The other was met at the gate: “I'm the ride. Put the bag in the back.”
And a few faces we're not allowed to show you yet.
The uMattery Federation is built around one idea: a business designed to give will outlast one designed to take. At its center is uMattery, an Indiana company. Around it sit a vault that protects the mission, a nonprofit reentry ministry, and six companies built to train, employ and house people coming home from prison, so they become builders and neighbors instead of statistics.
Matthew 25:36. To look upon, to care for, to visit with intention. Visit people in whatever prison they're in, and don't leave.
Generosity. Integrity. Transparency. No decision that can't withstand full public disclosure.
Connection and giving outperform extraction. Not anti-business, not naive charity: business that serves.
Holds the story and the blueprints so the mission can't be sold off.
Where members join and the companies connect.
Reentry on the ground: Dream Teams, 4-Fields, the First 72 Hours.
The Six: one closed loop
A place to land, then a ladder: studio → townhome → starter home → a home of your own.
Glass-walled shops where repairs happen on camera. Apprentice → certified tech → owner-operator.
“Gut and Grace” crews turning empty buildings into homes, with trade skills learned on the job.
Salvaged material becomes furniture for every Fullway home. “Dignity is found in the details.”
A teaching kitchen and roadshow that trains Chef-Stewards.
The studio telling the story, starting with Meet Me Halfway.
Fullway houses → G.A.G. trains → WeBuilders builds → Thoroughly Furnished furnishes → Master's Best feeds → Creative Dawn tells the story → and the people restored become the next Dream Team.
The companies are being built. What's described here is the plan and the design, not a finished result.
A Dream Team is twelve ordinary people wrapped around one person in prison, called a Broken Champion. They start years before release, they're standing at the gate, and they're still there after. The weight is spread across twelve, so it holds even when one person needs to step back.
“Nobody rebuilds alone. Not once. Not ever.”
Every member of a Dream Team is a Waypointer. They're not experts. They're busy, imperfect people with jobs, kids and bills, who reach inside the walls through a few simple weekly habits. What matters is being consistent, steady, teachable and respectful of boundaries.
“They point to the Way; they are not the Way.”
Short and real. Five minutes counts: connection, stability, next step.
Showing up in person, inside the walls. Matthew 25:36, lived out.
A written word someone can read again on the worst night.
Small, steady giving from each Waypointer. “Love must be funded to be consistent.”
A 10–15 minute team check-in, usually a group text or voice note.
Team leaders meet to keep the rhythm honest.
Each Waypointer completes a call, a visit and a letter.
Keeps the rhythm, schedules the actions, protects the boundaries.
The stabilizer and second anchor.
Handles the logistics so nothing falls through.
Roles rotate and aren't about importance. Teams grow by multiplying, not by getting bigger: ten teams form a Centurion, a hundred a Millennium.
The covenant: I will not disappear. I will not abandon. I will not burn out alone. I will carry this with others. I will follow the rhythm. I will honor transparency. I will protect the mission.
Waypointers start the Four Actions while he's still inside. Gifts to commissary and a release fund build quietly, week by week.
No one walks out alone. “I'm the ride. Put the bag in the back.”
By 6 hours: food, a safe bed, a ride. By 24: a phone, parole requirements understood. By 48: an ID plan, the job path started. By 72: he knows the team is real.
Stabilization, then momentum, then transformation, guided by the Seven Pillars.
The ladder runs supported, stable, serving, mentor, leader, builder.
Built with churches
Dream Teams don't replace a pastor's flock; they put it to work (Acts 6, Exodus 18, 2 Timothy 2:2). The ask to any church is simple: start with one team.
Clear boundaries
No romantic contact. No private meetings in unsafe places. No direct cash. Nothing illegal, ever. Every Waypointer is trained before the first call.
Becoming a Waypointer is a membership in the mission, not an investment. It buys no ownership and promises no financial return. Waypointer membership opens after the Pioneer launch.
The 4-Fields Academy is simple, reproducible disciple-making training: tools, not rules, passed from one man to the next without needing an expert. No polished lectures, just something you can live. It works in cell blocks, dorms, dayrooms, reentry housing and living rooms, with 3 to 12 people and no technology.
Pray, go and share until you find a Person of Peace, then map their circle.
A story of hope and a simple drawing anyone can sketch at the chow table.
Small groups that obey what they learn, then pass it on.
A simple church forms right where they live, and it can outlast a transfer.
Leaders raise leaders, and one table becomes many.
How did you obey last week? Who needs prayer?
Read it, discover it together, sum it up.
Role-play the tool, set a goal, leave with a mission.
Share your story fast, cast vision, find a Person of Peace.
The cell block gathers: simple church, communion, care.
Train trainers. One table becomes many.
Inside
Men gather at a table, run the rhythm and bless others in their unit. It builds leadership, responsibility and spiritual authority in a place built to strip it away.
The flip
Waypointers outside learn the very same tools, and they learn them from the men inside. Same language, same rhythm, both sides of the wall.
Outside
When he comes home, he isn't walking into a church full of strangers. He's walking into his team. You don't leave your purpose at the gate.
Built on the NoPlaceLeft 4-Fields framework developed by Nathan Shank, contextualized for prison ministry by David Ludwick, and adapted by Broken Champions for Dream Teams. The Broken Champions prison edition is being built now.
Broken Champions is the nonprofit at the heart of the work: a 501(c)(3) reentry ministry in Indiana, with a heart for veterans. It runs the Dream Teams, the 4-Fields Academy and the First 72 Hours. It's legally separate from the companies and supported by gifts, grants and a portion of the Federation's income.
“We don't wait for men to earn dignity. We declare it.”
Isaiah 58:12: repairers of the breach.
1 Peter 4:8. Dignity first, questions later.
The Champion, the Dream Team, and the Presence.
Declare each morning, account each evening.
Revelation 2:10. From project to Champion.
National context: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. These are national figures, not program results.
Author of Meet Me Halfway and the visionary behind the uMattery Federation. By design, nobody knows what he looks like. The work is meant to be the face.
A long-time business owner and prison minister who became a trusted leader among fellow veterans. He does what programs can't: he shows up.
Bane leads Broken Champions' day-to-day reentry work, preparing men for release and building the teams that meet them at the gate.
Full profile coming soon.
For nearly a decade a campus pastor at New Castle Correctional Facility in Indiana, Walt learned that restoration isn't a program you run but a relationship you commit to. A member of Northview Church, he bridges the congregation and the cell block.
“These men aren't cases to be managed. They are champions waiting to be activated.”
Full profile coming soon.