Staff
Adam Hughes has a BA in Speech Communications from UALR and a Master’s of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He is currently completing a PhD in Expository Preaching from Southwestern with an intended graduation in 2012. He is originally from the Pine Bluff area where he graduated high school, met and married his wife, and served his first church as pastor. Adam and Holly have been married for almost ten years, and together they have two daughters, Ashlyn age five and Kenlee age three. They have lived and served in Texas for the last seven plus years. Adam has served churches in Arkansas and Texas, been a featured speaker and preacher in conferences, revivals, and camps in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Washington, and taught Expository Preaching at Southwestern’s extension center in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Adam’s hobbies include reading and writing, golf, anything to do with Razorback athletics, and spending time with his family.
Adam and Holly believe God has called them to invest their lives and set up roots in Batesville for the purpose of glorifying God through sharing Christ with the lost. Adam believes everything a pastor is must be based on a strong preaching/teaching ministry that honors the inerrant, infallible, sufficient, and authoritative Word of God. For this reason, every sermon at West is designed to display a deep commitment to the exaltation of Jesus Christ through a purposeful focus on systematic exposition of the Bible.
More about Adam: http://www.swbts.edu/swnews/articles_detail.cfm?Article_ID=262
Ed Adcock is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University with a bachelor in Church Music. He also has a Master of Music degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been selected to sing with the "CenturyMen" and has sung previously with the Singing Men of Texas. Ed is currently a member of the Master's Singers of Arkansas. In the spring of 2010, he was the guest conductor for the Singapore Baptist Convention Youth Choir and Orchestra Festival. His heart's desire is to lead Christians to true worship, through a contemporary/blended style of music, and to reach those who are lost, with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Ed is married to Debbie. They have grown children: Kyle, daughter-in-law, Michele and daughter Katie.
Ed enjoys golfing, fishing, watching sports, snow skiing and spending time with Debbie.
Debbie Adcock - Minister of Preschool/Chrildren
Email DebbieDebbie Adcock is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University with a bachelor’s degree in Religious Education. She also has a second degree in Elementary Education from Hendrix College, as well as, a partial master’s degree from St. Thomas University in ESL.
Debbie was a public school teacher for 23 years in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. She has also served in both full-time and part-time positions as Children’s Minister and Children’s Choir Coordinator.
Her passion and calling is teaching children of all ages about Jesus. Her greatest joy in life is seeing those children come to know Jesus on a personal level.
Debbie is married to Ed. They have grown children: Kyle serves as a Student Minister in Alabama; daughter-in-law, Michele is a second grade teacher; and Katie is a Music Business major at
Dallas Baptist University.
Debbie enjoys spending time with Ed and her grown kids when possible. She also loves to read, play the piano, and go shopping.
Train a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not turn away from it. Proverbs 22:6
Bruce Mathews - Chairman of Deacons
