Branch challenges students to rely on Christ during Feb. 24 chapel message The Shawnee News-Star William “Duce” Branch, assistant professor of preaching and Bible as well as undergraduate chapel coordinator for The College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina, delivered the chapel message Feb. 24 in Raley Chapel’s Potter Auditorium. He taught from Revelation 3:7-13. Branch is also a Christian hip-hop artist known as “The Ambassador,” who has recorded independently and as a founding member of The Cross Movement. Branch noted how God urges us to, “Rely on the loyal one in order to remain His faithful ones.” “The loyalty of Christ is rooted, and is at the root of, our faithfulness to Christ,” he added.