about

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 6 to 18, 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.  Also true.  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.