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About Pastor Adam Warrad  I grew up in a Christian home and church was always a must. At the age of 10, I knew I was lost and needed to be saved but resisted for the next two years because I worried about what people might think. You see, I was “already saved” and had been baptized. It was at the age of 12, at youth camp, that I could no longer fight the conviction of the Lord, knowing I was not saved and received Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour. That same summer I was baptized in my local church. Three years later, at the age of 15, I surrendered my life to Lord to do whatever it is God would have me to do. I followed the Lord’s leading to Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City where I Graduated in 2005 with a pastoral degree. For the next 15 years, I served as the Associate Pastor at Buchanan Avenue Baptist Church in Sioux City, Iowa, where I grew up. God led my family and I to Elizabethtown, Kentucky in 2020 where I served for 4.5 years as Associate Pastor at Antioch Baptist Church. In November of 2024, I became senior Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church. I continue to desire to serve the Lord as He leads and guides. Pastor's wife Melissa Warrad:  I was raised in a Christian home and have been going to church as long as I can remember. As a child I was very much a rule follower. I wanted to do what was right. So, when I was nine years old I made a profession of faith. I did this because I wanted to please my parents, Sunday school teachers, and church family. I knew you were supposed to get saved; however, I didn't know I was a sinner needing a Saviour. I just did it because you were supposed to. When I was 11, I experienced conviction of my sin from the Holy Spirit for the first time in my life. I brushed it off because I had already prayed to get saved. I continued to brush off the conviction year after year. Often, at night I would pray "Lord, if I am not saved, save me" because I was afraid of going to Hell or being left behind in the rapture. This continued until I was 18 at Silver State Baptist Youth Camp. I fought with God about talking to someone all week. Finally, on Friday after the last service, I asked my counselor if I could talk to her. We sat on the steps outside the girls bathroom near the chapel. I told her, "I don't think I am saved." She asked me why I thought that, and I just started praying. I truly accepted Christ as my personal Saviour and only atonement for my sins that day. I also told God if he would save me, I would serve him for the rest of my life. A huge weight was lifted off me, and I told everyone I came in contact with what had happened. I was baptized at my church when I got home from camp. That fall, I went to Heartland Baptist Bible College to begin training for God's service. I married Adam between our Sophomore and Junior year, and have since been serving the Lord with him. I look forward to continuing to serve our Saviour alongside my husband, and seeing what the Lord will do with him, and our family, as we allow Him to lead. |