Adam Walker Cleaveland is a pastor, blogger, networker, social media consultant, husband and progressive Presbymergent. This is the professional site for Adam and you can find information about his writing, speaking and ministry experience.
Adam currently lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife Sarah and their lab/pit mix Sadie. Sarah is a PhD student at the Graduate Theological Union studying Christian Spirituality. Adam is Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Ashland, Oregon.
Adam attended Whitworth University and received a BA in Religion, while also focusing on writing and art courses. During college, he spent his summers working at PC(USA) summer camps, including two years at Camp Sawtooth (Ketchum, Idaho) and one year at Calvin Crest (Oakhurst, California). After graduating from Whitworth, he spent two years serving as the Director of Youth Ministries at Living Waters Presbyterian Church (Wendell, Idaho). Still feeling called to ministry, he was accepted into the Dual Degree program at Princeton Theological Seminary and began in the fall of 2004.
After three years at Princeton Seminary and one year at Columbia Seminary (Decatur, Georgia), Adam graduated in May of 2008 with a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Youth Ministry. During seminary, he also completed a year of Field Education working with college students at Princeton University and completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Having been selected to be a Ministry Fellow by the Fund for Theological Education, he spent the summer of 2005 in the Middle East, living and working with Palestinians and learning about the conflict in the Middle East. Adam also co-founded Presbymergent during seminary, a group of “loyal radicals” in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
After graduating from Princeton, Adam and Sarah moved to the Bay area, where Sarah began her PhD program and Adam served for three years as Minister for Youth & Young Adults at Asbury United Methodist Church in Livermore, CA.
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Adam Walker Cleaveland is Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Ashland, Oregon. Adam is involved in the emerging church movement and is a co-founder of Presbymergent. Adam blogs at Pomomusings.com, where he writes about youth ministry, theology and social media. You can find Adam online at adamwc.me, facebook.com/adamwc or on Twitter at @adamwc.
