The Leadership

The leadership team is a group of UWP students who are committed to serving the UWP campus through InterVarsity.  They aim to connect the chapter to a greater vision of what God wants to do on the UWP campus.  They also organize events and activities that help to convey this vision to both the chapter and the campus.

The Students

Brandon Pepin

Brandon Pepin
Brandon is a communications technology major in his forth year at UWP. He is what you would call a tech savvy guy, he loves apple computers and is a sucker for all things electronic and gadgety. He is a musician, a guitar player, a sound engineer and an avid ultimate frisbee player. As President Brandon is responsible for vision casting and direction, along with leading the Servant Leadership Team. He has made it his goal to lead by example in the areas of personal integrity, prayer, worship and discipleship.

Jon Hoffman

Jon Hoffman
Jon is a junior in Engineering Physics. He grew up in New Berlin, Wisconsin and attended Heritage Christian High School. He enjoys wrestling, disc golf, racquetball, camping, ultimate Frisbee, skiing, hiking, basketball, and parkour. He has led a small group Bible study for two semesters in his dorm and also led a men's bible study his sophomore year. He is now one of the small group coordinators and also leads the Southwest hall Bible study. He has a strong knowledge of scripture that he loves to put to use in leading the small group leaders. He constantly strives to learn more about God. He prays daily to be filled with the love of God so that he can love others in such a way that the power of God would be unmistakably apparent.

Ben Belton

Ben Belton
Ben is currently a junior in Mechanical Engineering. He was home schooled from kindergarten through the sixth grade. He was born in Zambia, and attended high school in Kenya. He has a "permanant adress" in Oshkosh, and sometimes lives in Brookfield. He enjoys soccer, disc golf, and biking. He also likes to play guitar and keyboard. Previously he had led a small group for two semesters and now he serves as a small group coordinator. As a part of that he organizes bible studies and leads the small group leaders as well as participating in Brockert Hall's small group.

Melissa Polheber

Melissa Polheber
Melissa is currently a sophomore in Physical Education/Health Promotion. She grew up and went to grade school in Genoa City, Wisconsin, then went to Badger High School in Lake Geneva. She enjoys the outdoors, hiking, camping, and competitive sports. She has previously led the small group in Wilgus Hall and is now a small group coordinator. She leads the small group leaders as well as co-lead the Morrow small group. She loves God and strives to know Him and His plan better in every aspect of her life. She does her best to glorify God in everything she does in order to be a living and active witness for Christ.

Jenny Paul

Jenny Paul
Jenny is majoring in Elementary Education with an Early Childhood inclusion minor and also a minor in Teaching English as a Second Language. She grew up just outside of Glenbeulah, WI in the Kettle Moraine Forest and enjoys hiking on the Ice Age Trail, playing soccer, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, and dancing. She has been active in Intervarsity for the past several years and this year has the role of Connections Coordinator. As a Connections Coordinator she looks forward to planning and caring out evangelism and outreach events to reach our campus with Gods love. She believes God has given her a calling to do missions and is going to Zambia with a team this summer.

David Hoadley

David Hoadley
David is a junior in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Business Administration. He reigns from Mequon WI, where he went to Homestead High school. He has bunches of tons of fun snowboarding, skateboarding, fishing, playing disc golf, drawing art, and being outside. For one semester he led a small group in Morrow Hall, and now serves as a connections coordinator. As a connections coordinator, he is connecting our group with other groups on campus and provides events for the chapter to take part of. Amidst all of the schooling, David finds time to keep many friendships he made as an RA during his second year here. He looks to our Lord for all the answers to life's questions and spends time with God daily figuring out how to have a full life.

Eric Mich

Eric Mich
Eric is a junior in Mechanical Engineering who hails from northeast Wisconsin. In his free time, Eric enjoys outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, and competitive target shooting. Prior to joining the leadership team, Eric was involved with leading a small group bible study. As quest co-coordinator, he organizes and plans topics, speakers, and the format for the semester. Eric is excited to see God at work on the UWP campus.

Zach Candee

Zach Candee
Zach is a junior in Electrical and Software Engineering. Raised in Iowa most of his life means he is more than a little different. Zach enjoys all things tech and is computer bilingual using both Mac and pc. Before stepping up to Co-coordinate Quest, he spent several semesters coordinating tech. As a large group coordinator, he helps plan the topics and organize the flow of Quest every Thursday.

The Staff

Kori Cherney
Kori has served as our staffworker since 1999. She was involved as a student in the InterVarsity chapters at UW-Whitewater and at UW-LaCrosse; graduating from UWL in 1996. Along with her husband, Mark, she lives out in the country and absolutely loves having students join them in enjoying their property and in helping out with various house projects!

Aaron Morrow
Aaron has been on staff with InterVarsity since October 2007. He and his wife, Becky, have a two-year-old daughter named Leah. Leah makes Aaron and Becky look like far better parents than what they actually are since she's a cute, friendly, inclusive, and high octane chatter-box. Aaron graduated from UW-River Falls in 2002 with a degree in Environmental Science and before coming on staff he was a youth pastor in Waukesha. Aaron and Becky really like living in Platteville and planning on living here for a very long time.