My name is Will Branch!
I am a faith-based youth motivational speaker.
I currently live in my hometown of Milwaukee, WI and have been speaking to young people for 10+ years.
MY PASSION
I absolutely LOVE working with teens and young adults. I've been a youth pastor, camp counselor, MS/HS school chaplain, student ministries coordinator, mentor, etc. I love the energy, the realness about life and faith, and the excitement about the future. My passion is to help the next generation encounter God!
MY STORY
I was a church kid growing up. I knew all the verses and Bible stories. So I had a solid faith foundation and knew a bunch of information about God. But it wasn't until I went on a mission trip at 13 that I really experienced God's presence for the first time. I always knew God was real but for the first time I realized that God is present with us.
I decided that I didn't want to just settle with knowing stuff about God. I wanted to know Him. That led me on this spiritual journey where I learned how to encounter God through the Word, in worship, in fellowship and that hunger still burns in me to this day.
MY CALLING
I am a pastor at heart. I have a heart for God and because of that I have a heart for people; specifically young people.
I want to help people ". . . taste and see that the Lord is good."
I've met so many people that have grown up in church like me and can tell the stories and can spit out memory verses.
But they don't know the real God. Other than continuing on the journey of knowing God myself, I feel like my calling is to help the next generation move from knowing information about God to encounter with God.
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