Pastor | Author
Healed people
heal people.
I help people find healing, freedom, and joy so they can live a life in pursuit of Jesus. Not just survive life, but thrive in it.
About
I consider myself a “miner” — someone who digs beneath the surface to bring out the gifts and purpose already placed in people, and helps build them up emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically.
That conviction was shaped in my own life first: years of childhood trauma led me on a slow road to healing, joy, and freedom, and convinced me that wholeness — mind, body, and soul — isn’t a nice idea. It’s the whole point.
Before planting Generation Church out of two school buildings, I spent fifteen faithful years in youth ministry. Today I pastor, write, coach church planters, and train, but the accomplishment I’m proudest of is twenty-three years of marriage and kids who love Jesus, His church, and people.
now available
A Journey through the Wilderness
In this book, Pastor Brandon Petty takes us on his personal journey of childhood abuse, trauma, and brokenness. At each stage of our journey, we come across Mile Markers: The stages in our journey that tell us how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go in order to find freedom, healing, and peace. You will learn how he navigated his own journey through the wilderness in order to become a guide for others. You are invited to find your pathway to healing and transformation. You are invited to go on a journey through the wilderness.
generation church
I serve as Senior Pastor of Generation Church, a congregation of about 1,200 people in Portland, Tennessee, built on resurrecting family trees for generations to come through discipleship to Jesus.
landmark network
A network of pastors and churches is committed to starting new churches, strengthening existing ones, and setting up the next generation of leaders to thrive.
starting
New churches
Backing new church plants with funding, coaching, and a community behind them from day one.
strengthening
Existing churches
Ongoing coaching and peer wisdom that helps leaders and congregations grow at every stage.
setting
the next generation
Internships and pathways that develop and send out the next wave of church leaders.
The podcast
rooted
“If we want the fruit, we have to get to the root.”
Tyler Gilman and I dig past the surface-level symptoms to talk about what’s actually going on underneath in our faith, our habits, our parenting, and our communities. It’s the same conviction that shapes everything else here: real change starts underground.
messages
Every message, in one place.
I teach most Sundays at Generation Church, and it’s all posted here — sermons, series, all of it. Come listen anytime.
Speak & lead
Let's talk.
Church events, conferences, retreats, church planter coaching, author and media questions. If it’s in one of those lanes, this is the best way to reach me.