OUR PASTOR—
Adam Godbold (of Pearl, Mississippi) met his wife, Lindsey (of Hartselle, Alabama), years ago at church camp. They have now been married for twenty years and have nine children (Imogene Ruth, 17-yo; Aidan Peter, 15-yo; Emery Silas, 14-yo; Ransom Jonathan, 12-y0; Topher Nathanael, 10-yo; Peregrin Thaddeus, 8-yo; Daisy Esther, 5-yo; Sue Ellen Martha, 3-yo; Juniper Lois, 1-yo).
Adam was raised in Pearl, Mississippi, and attended Wesley College in Florence, Mississippi, where he served in student government throughout his college experience, particularly as Student Body President for two years. After graduating as Valedictorian of his class (with honors), he then moved to Marietta to serve as the youth pastor of FMC in addition to teaching middle and high school Language Arts at Praise Academy in Lithia Springs.
After working with the youth for two years, he and Lindsey saw the need for him to continue his educational preparation. They moved back to Mississippi, where he attended Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson for three years. During one of these years, Adam also served as the youth director at Marvin United Methodist Church in Florence, and for two of them, he served as the pastor of Salem Independent Methodist Church in Ackerman.
With only a hand-full of classes remaining to acquire his M.Div. from WBS, Adam was called to return to FMC to replant the church 10 miles west of where it had previously been. For a couple of years, he was doing such bi-vocationally while also teaching 5th grade at Praise Academy; however, he has since been serving in a full-time capacity as pastor of FMC, having graduated from WBS (with academic distinction) in April of 2012.
Adam, an ordained Elder with the Association of Independent Methodists (AIM), teaches courses in Christian theology, Biblical studies, and pastoral ministry as an Adjunct Faculty member for Ohio Christian University and as a Visiting Lecturer for Emmaus University of Haiti in Cercaville, Acul du Nord, Haiti. He is an avid reader, his greatest interests being in the realms of theology, literature, and history. His favorite author is C. S. Lewis, who he quotes or references nearly every week. He currently serves as the Chairman of Pastor-Parish Relations for AIM, the Director of the annual AIM Southeast Youth Camp, and the Coordinator for the WBS Alumni Association Executive Board.
While his oldest son played for different little league baseball teams through Southwest Baseball Association (SWBA) at Clarkdale Park in Austell, Adam coached several of these teams. He enjoys watching sports— especially Braves baseball— and consuming— what he considers to be— great music and great coffee.
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OUR VALUES—
The people and families of FMC stand upon the Scriptural call to...
relational community
We are a church home where real relationships with others are built, families are honored, and people of all ages are treated with dignity and value, being gladly welcomed into the life & nurture of the Body of Christ.
transformational discipleship
We are a church home that helps its people become better, more faithful disciples of Jesus, in which their value as whole persons— body and soul, heart and mind— is recognized and cherished as they follow Him out into His world.
personal mission
We are a church home which encourages, equips, and empowers its people to make a difference in their community and in the lives of others, providing them a variety of opportunities to give the world greater deposits of truth, goodness, and beauty.
OUR DIRECTION—
Our people and families envision FMC becoming...
multi-generational
We recognize and appreciate that true community spans— in its very nature— the whole spectrum of generations. No particular age group, in and of itself, can capture the full sense of community, and neither can it, therefore, reap the full benefits of community.
community-engrained
We recognize and appreciate that no church, simply by its mere existence, is advantageous to its community. With that reality in mind, we intend to take very literally the scriptural call to be the Body of Christ in the created world, particularly through active involvement and personal investment in our community.
self-replicating
We recognize and appreciate that, in the nature of God's creative plan, any healthy organism will naturally grow and develop over time. Subsequently, we understand that as a vibrant and growing, local expression of the Body of Christ, FMC will be called to replicate itself into the lives of other vibrant and growing, local expressions of the same Body. That being said, we envision ourselves not merely accumulating a large roster but, rather, pouring ourselves back out into more new churches throughout the corners of our community.
OUR BELIEFS—
Faith Methodist Church worships the eternally triune God— Father, Son, and Spirit— who is made known in the Bible, the inspired Holy Scriptures, His self-revealing, reliably-written Word to mankind.
Furthermore, we recognize and affirm the Articles of Religion of historic Methodism, sharing the orthodox, catholic faith of the Early Church expressed plainly in the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene-Constatinopolitan Creed, and the Chalcedonian Definition.
As Wesleyan Methodists, we believe that a person's greatest calling is to know, love, and reflect the triune God, in whose image we have been created. The Father's desire is that His children would be holy, sharing His character. What's more: the Holy Spirit is able— as we cooperate by faith— to apply the redeeming work of Christ to our hearts in such a transformative way that our lives can be lived in self-giving, other-oriented love. This message is commonly known as 'holiness of heart and life', and we understand it to be the promise of the triune God, enabling us to live redemptively in this broken and troublesome with true joy and true peace.
"Faithful is He who calls you & who will also do it."
—I Thessalonians 5:24