ADA BIBLE ACADEMY FALL 2025 CLASSES
At Ada Bible Church, it’s our desire that you are equipped to deepen your relationship with Christ. Ada Bible Academy is an opportunity for you to dig deeper into topics that will strengthen your faith and equip you to grow in Christlikeness. Each class is a four-week session on an important topic that provides practical ways to live out your faith every day.
This fall, Ada Bible Academy will feature two classes focused on understanding God’s design in sexuality and living with purpose in your 60’s and beyond. We invite you to join us starting Thursday, October 16, at our East Paris Campus for one of these classes taught by Ada Bible staff.
ADA BIBLE ACADEMY FALL 2025 CLASSES
Made for More: Understanding God’s Design for Sexuality
Live it Well: Charting a God-centered Course for Your 4th Quarter
October 16 – November 6, 2025
Thursdays | 7 – 8:30 PM | East Paris Campus
*All classes held in-person at East Paris
Sign up today by tapping the CLASS REGISTRATION link.
COURSE 1: MADE FOR MORE
Understanding God’s Design for Sexuality
How do we navigate sexuality in a culture offering only consent, connection or commodification? This 4-week course reveals that you were made for more —God’s covenant design for human sexuality. We’ll explore biblical foundations from Genesis through the New Testament, showing how God’s design for intimacy serves as a model of the gospel itself. Discover why marriage isn’t a distraction from the gospel but a declaration of it. Learn how singleness offers a unique picture of God’s love. Develop understanding for graciously interacting with cultural views on gender, same-sex relationships and sexual ethics.
Whether you’re married or single, a young adult or retired, this course equips you with biblical wisdom, scholarly research and gospel-centered compassion to engage our post-Christian culture with both truth and love. You were made for more than cultural narratives. You were made for covenant.
Made for More
Thursdays | October 16 – November 6 | 7 – 8:30 PM
Ada Bible Church East Paris Campus
INSTRUCTOR BIOS
Stephen Lewis, Ph.D.
Stephen Lewis, Ph.D. serves as the Director of Spiritual Formation and has been on staff at Ada Bible Church for over 10 years. He’s a co-host for the Beyond the Weekend Podcast and provides theological oversight for the teaching and writing teams. He has his Ph.D. in World Religions from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Stephen is married to Jaclyn and they have two children. He loves to read, travel, bike and spend time with his family.
Amelia Rhodes
Amelia Rhodes serves as the Director of Discipleship Resources and has been on staff at Ada Bible Church for over 6 years. She’s also the co-host for the Beyond the Weekend Podcast and writes for the Beyond the Weekend devotional. Amelia is married to Kedron and they have two young adult children. Amelia is studying for her MA in Christian Studies at Southeastern Seminary. She loves helping people grow in their love for Jesus and God’s Word.
COURSE 2: LIVE IT WELL
Charting a God-centered Course for Your 4th Quarter
God created us to bring him glory and calls us to make an impact on our world through works that he has prepared for us to do. This truth does not end when we turn sixty. On the contrary, our senior years may well be our best.
Our hope is that through this course God will give you clarity on your unique calling, the opportunities before you and joy as you trust him for what he can do through you in your 4th quarter of life. Through a series of teachings, group conversations, and homework assignments we will help you chart a course that will help guide and motivate you through the next chapter of your life.
Live it Well
Thursdays | October 16 – November 6 | 7 – 8:30 PM
Ada Bible Church East Paris Campus
INSTRUCTOR BIOS
Vic Willis
Vic Willis is the Men’s Ministry Pastor at Ada Bible’s Kentwood Campus and has been on staff for 3 years. Vic has been married to his wife Nicci for 41 years. They have two grown children and love being grandparents to four grandchildren. Vic served in the role of senior pastor for over 30 years in Durban, South Africa, giving leadership to the Fellowship of Baptist Churches in South Africa and serving as the Chairman of the Board for the Baptist Bible College in South Africa. He has a Master of Ministry degree and has taught systematic theology and apologetics at the undergraduate level. Vic has entered his fourth quarter of life with a passion to use his calling and experience to encourage others in their walk with the Lord.
Phil Niekerk
Phil Niekerk is the Director of Men’s Ministry for Ada Bible Church and has been on staff for 24 years. During his time on staff, Phil has served in a variety of roles, primarily as a pastor helping Ada Bible build a small group ministry. Over the past five years, his focus has been Men’s Ministry. Phil loves to see men connect in small groups that draw them closer to Jesus and give them strong relationships with other men who are pursuing Christ. He and his wife Janice have been married for 38 years and have 3 grown children and 2 granddaughters. He is just stepping into his sixties and is excited to see what God has for him in this next season of life. Phil loves to see people grow and flourish in love and service for God.