Hi. I’m R. Adam Davidson (rad).
My wife Brittany and I are in the intensive process of raising five kids in our bustling blended family home near Holland, MI. Besides our spread of kids age 8 to 20, we also have a cat and dog. Yes, every square foot of the house is spoken for. And yes, it’s noisy. But yes, it’s good.
I began serving as Chapel Pastor at Central Wesleyan Church in Holland (MI) in June 2023. Before that, I spent 10 years as Lead Pastor at Renovation Church (formerly known as Portage Free Methodist Church) near Kalamazoo.
I always enjoy the privilege of speaking at camps, conferences, workshops, and the like. Family camps, youth camps, seminars — I do like to talk. It’s true. And I like to teach. In fact, I even get to teach classes in Communication, Leadership, and Non Profit Management at Cornerstone University. West Michigan is our home, yet I am blessed to be able to teach and minister in a variety of places as the schedule allows.
In 2020 I started CoachMyPreaching.com as a way to come alongside pastors to coach them in the art of public speaking and communicating courageously.
Before moving to Portage, I lived in Spring Arbor, where I served for six years as the Worship Pastor at Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church.
While in Spring Arbor, I had the privilege of waking up early for 5 years so that I could, with bleary eyes, host Mornings at Home on the Home.FM radio network. To this day, I still pay attention to the weather forecast, just like a real broadcaster, and can give you updates upon request.
I also taught some classes on the campus of Spring Arbor University in Communication and Worship Arts.
Before that, I lived near Toledo, OH, where I served as Worship Pastor at CrossRoads Community Church in Ottawa Lake, MI.
Before that, I was a student at Spring Arbor University.
I liked SAU enough to go twice — once for a BA in Worship Arts and again for an MA in Organizational Management. “What does Org Management have to do with ministry?” Truth: I use that degree just about every day in the church. If I spend one hour doing theological work, I might spend up to 7 doing administrative things. Ordination and theological training came via the Free Methodist Church and Anderson University School of Theology.
And before thaaat, I was a High School student living and working in Metro Detroit. I’m one of those people who love Detroit. Her dysfunctions and hollowed out places are strangely endearing to me. I guess you had to live there to feel this way.
I’m interested in: Jeeps, coffee, books, music, keyboards/synths, vintage Mac computers, boomboxes from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, commentaries, rhetoric, creative nonfiction, organizational development, broadcasting, podcasting, radcasting, bacon, electrical work, cooking cheap steak in a way that makes it taste expensive, keys, writing, lifting weights, feeling guilty for not lifting weights, and the ongoing debate about what is real.
At my core, I desire to be like Jesus. I’m not always very good at it, but it’s my aim nonetheless. My children need me to be the best husband and dad I can be. Jesus makes this possible through His life, death, and resurrection. He died, He was buried, He came back to life, He ascended, He is renewing the world, (*) He will return. This point in human history (*) is where we’re currently living. How to be saved? How to be made new? How to spend eternity with God? Jesus is the way. That’s who I’m following.
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