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Daddy’s Testimony
“I have been born again. I
am a new creature in
Christ Jesus.
All things have become
new. The things I used to
love, I now hate;
the things I used to hate
I now love.”
“I was at a meeting in
Scott County, Virginia,
and received the
experience of Eternal Life. If I could get one more experience just
like I received, through any kind of weather, I would get down on
my hands and knees and crawl from here to Scott County. And this
thought just flashed through me: I would be willing to be as though
I had never been born, if
by this means it would
cause some person
to receive Eternal Life
that didn’t have a chance
of receiving Eternal
Life. I know that God does
not require anything like
that
though. This experience
occurred in 1929.”
(Written by my dad, Kelsey
G. Adams)
MOTHER’S TESTIMONY
(April, 1941)
(Excerpt)
“My husband, Kelsey G.
Adams, would go to church
almost
every night, and I would
go to bed. He would come
home and wake
me up and tell me about the service. I would get a little bit aggravated
, but I didn’t have the
heart to not listen. He
said, “You should hear
that preacher. He sure
does preach the Word.”
Well, I did finally go
with him one night and sat
in the very back.
One day we had to go some
place and it was almost
church time.
I said, “Hon, I will go to church like I am if you will.” So we went.
After about two weeks, we
kept moving up a little
closer.
On Good Friday before
Easter, 1941, I went to
the altar; and when I
got up, it looked like
someone had put 100-watt
bulbs in every light
in the church. It felt
like someone had taken
something as heavy as
a piano off my back. And
there was not one
hypocrite in the church!
That is the way we should
always be, let God look
through our eyes.
Kelsey G. and Lillie M.
(Robbins) Adams
Both Mother and Daddy were
natives of Letcher County,
Kentucky.
In his biography, Daddy
recorded his first
impressions of Mother.
“A business moved into town, and the people that owned it moved
just two houses from where
I worked; but the most
interesting thing
to me was the beautiful girl I saw around the house. I believe she
saw me too! We didn’t
waste much time getting
acquainted, and
after over thirty years,
five grown children and
nine grandchildren,
we are still married and ‘acquainted.’ “
At his death in 1979 they
had been married over 48
years. The grandchildren
had increased to 13, and
the great-grandchildren
are continuing to
increase. There are now
two great-great
grandchildren. They
started their family with
twins that were born
prematurely and didn’t
survive. They ended with
another set
of twins which were the little “stars” of their small town as
Mother pushed the double
baby buggy up the street.
They established a
clothing store and shoe
repair business in the
small town of Jenkins
where they settled shortly
after they were
married. Mother came from
a “shoe cobbler” family
and could
“cobble” with the best of
them. In addition to being
a busy mom,
she helped run the
businesses as well, but
neither were ever too
busy to be active in their
church and held many
positions
over the years.
Daddy’s favorite pastime
was having Bible
discussions with his
friends who stopped by the
business. Mother’s was
just “mothering” everyone
who crossed her path. She
was always available when
a new baby came to a
neighbor and wherever she
was needed.
“Stranger” was just not in
her vocabulary.
When the coal-mining town
of Jenkins began to wan of
business
prospects, they moved to Detroit where Daddy opened up a
shoe repair shop in downtown Detroit. Mother worked for
McKesson & Robbins and
retired after twenty
years. After
they retired, they returned to Kentucky where they lived
until their deaths.
They were dearly loved and
are missed by their six
children:
Robert (his mother died
when he was an infant),
Delores,
Violetta, Lorinda and Alice. Alice's twin brother, Kelsey Ray,
is deceased.
More about my Parents at
my family website:
Mother
and Daddy
Alice's Legacy
Remembering Alice
The "Handkerchief" has been
anointed and prayed over by
several believers who care about
you and want to help you realize
your full potential in Christ
Jesus Our Lord.
~The
Ten Commandments~
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