Pastor M. Adam Summers was born at home in Nashville, Tennessee on July 17, 1981. He was raised in a Christian home by Mark and Nan Summers. On January 7, 1988, at the age of 6, Adam accepted the Lord Jesus as his Savior and Redeemer after being shown his need of salvation by his mother from God’s word. When Adam was about 8 years old, and while living in Panama City Florida, he began taking piano lessons and continued for a total of about six years. While learning to play music he acquired a love for traditional church music and especially the old hymns. When he began taking music lessons as a small boy, Adam had no idea how God would use his love for music to change the path of his life many years down the road.

In addition to teaching the young people, he was also the pianist in his father’s churches for several years.

His father became pastor of a church in Centerville, Indiana in 1996. Adam received first-hand experience of how a church functions. Because it was a small country church, Adam stayed busy teaching and working around the church God had called his father to pastor.

In the summer of 1999, Adam was able to go to Mexico on a mission trip. While there, the Lord began to burden his heart for the people there in Mexico and also for lost and needy people in general. Later that summer he attended a Christian music conference at Thomas Moore College. While there he met a young lady named Melody Whitaker. Melody had also been to Mexico that summer on a mission trip. The two shared the same burden for people who have never heard the gospel preached. After the conference, Melody returned to her home in Chelsea Michigan. The two of them corresponded through e-mail for a few months but eventually lost contact.

Two years later Adam and his sister Rachel contacted Melody to ask if she would be interested in singing as a trio in a few churches in Michigan and Indiana. After meeting and singing together several times, Adam and Melody began to date in March of 2001 and were married on October 20, 2001. If you were to ask either of them they would both say that it was a burden for missions, and most all, a love for music that God used to bring them together.

Adam decided they would live in Chelsea after their wedding so that Melody could be near her father, Jerry Whitaker, who was ill from M.S. at the time. After getting settled into the routine of married life, Adam and Melody both stayed busy serving God in the church her family had started five years earlier.

Because Adam played the piano, taught the teenagers, led the choir, and did anything else that was needed, Pastor Jack Story, who was then 82 years old, asked him to be the assistant pastor. Two years later, because of his age and his wife’s failing health, Pastor Story recommended to the church that when he retired, Adam be voted in as pastor. On January 13, 2008, the people of Faith Baptist Church voted Adam in as their pastor.

Pastor Story stepped down on the church’s 12th anniversary (February 24th.) March 1, 2008 was Pastor Summers’ first Sunday as senior pastor.

Speaking about his life and ministry, Pastor Summers says “When stepping back to view the tapestry of my life which God has woven, I am very humbled by the blessings which he has bestowed upon me. I am also spurred on to show my gratitude and love for my Savior. My prayer is that God give me a greater love for my brethren and a stronger burden for the lost.”