Meet The Pastor
Lead Pastor Gabriel Dodd
Gabe Dodd is the lead pastor at The Branch Church. He has been in student ministry for five years in Alpharetta and Gainesville, Ga. He fell in love with church planting in college when he worked summer staff for three summers for a group called PowerPlant. The group traveled across the country doing week long camps where they connected youth groups to church planters in the certain city. Through this experience, Gabe fell in love with church planting and all that it stood for. September of 2012, Gabe and his wife, Bre, resigned as student pastor and told the Lord they would plant anywhere.
After much praying and traveling to the Northwest, God led them to Dahlonega, Ga. They are very early into the plant but are very expectant that God will do incredible things and draw many to Him. They are partnered with the Chattahoochee Baptist Association and the North American Mission Board as a SEND church planter. They have three children, Aubryn, Grady and Emmerson.