Will Smith

Meet Will

I grew up in Wills Point, Texas with 5 siblings and yes, I do remember saying “This should be my town it’s Will’s Point right.” Wrong, it was founded my William Wills, no apostrophe there. I professed my faith in Jesus around the age of 9 when I learned being a Chrisian isn’t just going to Church and being good.

When I got to college at Texas A&M, my relationship with Jesus began in earnest. I met passionate peers that became lifelong friends who were willing to pour into me. God took my formative years growing up in Church and began to smooth out the foundation that would lead me to where I am today.

In the last few months of college I was assailed by questions of my purpose as well as my competency; questions of identity. These stirred up anger which soon joined the brewing storm of family issues and Covid.

After a period of turning my face from the Lord I moved to Dallas, and began walking in step with the Holy Spirit at Watermark. I joined community, attended Re:generation, Equipped Disciple, The Porch, and began serving on Frontlines. The Lord used all of these to transform my life, pulling me out of a pit (Psalm 40:2). God is my confidence and joy, I look around and see the beauty and grandeur of his whole creation and it is always so encouraging; that I can grasp an ounce of the care and love behind anything he has made including myself is a blessing. I see the life he has planned for me and all of humanity, and I want everyone else to see it also.

God led me to this position without me even knowing it’s where I wanted to be. I wanted to serve people and work with my hands, I didn’t want to be sitting at a desk all day. I applied to an administrative role here in the hopes of seeing what ministry might look like, the Lord politely declined. I applied for the institute, the Lord politely declined. Then Chance Fletcher calls me on a normal Monday a couple weeks after being declined a spot with the institute. He asks if I’d like to interview for a position that just opened up. It so happens that it fits what I’m looking for, even then I didn’t completely see it in the moment. Two weeks later, I’m hired. I’m now serving the Church with my hands and getting to put time on the job and off serving the body and all our guests through Re:generation and other ministry’s and presenting a beautiful and welcoming campus. It’s a beautiful uniting of the ways I wanted to serve Christ.