Biography:

Bob Adams and his wife Allison were married on May 27, 2000, and raised their family in Kearneysville, West Virginia.

Tired of the cold and miserable weather up north, the Adams’ sold their home and moved to Ocean Ridge, Florida in June of 2019. Our family is proud and blessed to call Florida “home”.

Bob is the President and owner of Opinion Strategies LLC, a digital media marketing company that specializes in online fundraising for conservative political candidates. After working at the highest levels of state and national politics for over 20 years, Bob started his business in 2011.

He has served as a board member for several organizations, most recently including the advisory board of Gospel City Church. In this role, he has served as an advisor to Pastor David McCaman.

Previously, Bob has served on the advisory boards of the Arizona Latino Commission and the Congress of Racial Equality, one of the “Big Four” historic civil rights groups. In addition, he has served as a founding board member for Birthright of Charles Town (WV).

Bob and his wife also own Solomon Results LLC, a real estate investment and management company. He is currently heavily engaged in managing the rebuild of a home in Fort Myers Beach, which was devastated by Hurricane Ian in late-September of 2022.

At his core, Bob is an entrepreneur. He has a proven track record of starting, growing and managing several for-profit and non-profit businesses and political organizations.

He holds a Master of Business Administration from Shepherd University, a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Towson University, and an associate degree in general studies from Essex Community College.

He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served as a deck seaman aboard the U.S.S. Gridley (CG-21) in 1988.

Bob’s wife Allison is an accomplished equestrian jumper. After raising and homeschooling our children, Allison has been blessed to return to her young adult passion of riding horses. She competes regularly in the 1.1-meter jumper class at Wellington and also at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Tryon, NC, where the Adams’ own a horse farm and spend their summers.

Bob and Allison have four children: Madison, 22, Caitlyn, 20, Albert 18, and James, 16.

Our oldest daughter Madison currently works on the assignment desk for the Fox News Channel in Washington, DC. In March, she’ll be moving back to Florida to take a position as an on-air news reporter for the local NBC affiliate in Fort Myers, FL. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Caitlyn is a senior at the University of South Florida studying politics and business. She’ll graduate in the Fall of 2023.

Our sons, Albert and James both attend Boca Raton Christian School. Albert plans to attend the University of Florida this Fall. James will be a junior in high school.

All of our children have served overseas in the mission field through church and a number of Christian organizations. This summer, James will be serving on a mission team in Brazil with Teen Missions International.

Testimony:

Before I came to know Christ in my early 20s, my life could be best described as a world of darkness and depression.

Throughout my teen years, I suffered from a deep depression and abused alcohol as a way to self-medicate. Unbeknownst at the time, I used the booze to fill a deep hole in my life. But of course, there was never enough alcohol to kill the pain… to fill the hole. The depression I suffered was so deep and painful that without alcohol, I believe I likely would have taken my own life.

After I graduated high school in 1987, I joined the Navy. During my brief time there, my drinking and my life had spun completely out of control. At the age of 18, I was a full-blown alcoholic. I couldn’t stop drinking nor did I want to. I loved drinking! But it was quickly killing me.

After a while, even the Navy, an institution that condoned and encouraged drinking, had enough of me. I was soon shipped back home.

For a number of reasons, shortly after returning home, I managed to white-knuckle my way into sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous. From the standpoint that I didn’t drink, the program worked great for me! I had my last drink on August 26, 1988. I haven’t had a drink since.

Unfortunately, stopping drinking was the only thing that changed in my life. I still had all of the underlying depression and insecurities that I had used alcohol to cover up. I still had a gaping hole in my soul that could never be filled. I would spend the next three years in AA, going from meeting to meeting, lost and searching for something to fill that hole.

Then one evening after a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man talked to me about how and why I needed Christ. Frankly, I couldn’t wait to get away from him. The guy had what I called the “trifecta”. He was talking about Jesus. He had dreadful bad-breath, and in a matter-of-fact way, he informed me that before Christ he had previously been “gay”. Not exactly my “cup of tea”! Nevertheless, out of politeness alone, I heard him out.

The man told me that I was powerless over my sin. While sin was an idea that I kind of scoffed at, I undoubtedly knew that at a ‘gut level” I was powerless over my entire life. No matter how much I wanted to change, I was doomed to fail. Life had convinced me the hard way -- that even when I wanted to do what was right, I inevitably did what was wrong. (Romans 7:21)

What I didn’t know at the time was that my personal reality was in fact an iron law of life, a law that the apostle Paul had written so convincingly about in the Bible.

It was this very law of nature - a law of personal powerlessness - that haunted me, and fed my hopelessness, low self-worth and depression.

The man also told me that God was NOT powerless – that Jesus Christ could change my life, if I only let Him. He said that “all I needed to do was to ask Jesus to come into my heart and my life”. It was that simple.

He told me that Jesus would take me “as I was”, full of sin and disgustingness. I didn’t have to “get good” to “get God”. Christ would take me exactly “as I was”. “After all,”, he said, “What did I have to lose?”

He sure was right about that!

The man also spoke to me about my need for a personal relationship with Christ, which I definitely didn’t have, and I absolutely knew nothing about. Sure, I grew up as a Catholic. BUT I didn’t REALLY KNOW him. I knew nothing of a personal relationship with Jesus. That was a new concept for me. One thing is for sure, I most definitely had never asked Jesus “into my heart and into my life”.

When I got home that night, I did as the man suggested. I got down on my knees and asked Christ “into my heart and into my life”. I admitted to Christ that my life was a mess. At the same time, I also told him that I wasn’t ready to give up certain sins. BUT I was willing to let him work with me on that, IF he would take me. I then asked him to forgive me for my sins, and to take over my life. At that I moment, I had what I can only describe as a deep spiritual experience. I didn’t know it then, but my life was forever changed. I would never again walk alone. I would never again be without the power of Christ in my life.

With Christ, I was no longer powerless. He was my power source for everything – EXCEPT for the worldly things in my life that I wasn’t willing to give up.

But over the next 25 years of my life, including through my marriage to Allison, those worldly things would come back to haunt me.

I spent my adult years careening through life, constantly feeding my worldly-carnal desires.

With a career in national politics, I chased after wealth, power, and pleasure. Hypocritically, I lived a double life.

I lived a secret and dark life of sin outside of my marriage.

At home or at church, I was a Christian and a family man.

I was a successful business leader, and a respected member of the community.

I was the ultra-marathon man -

I was great, and I would never get caught in my sin, or so I thought in all of arrogance.

But away from home, often travelling away for business, I lived like a pagan.

I was a Christian, but in name only.

It was only a matter of time before God would call me to account – to chasten me. When he did, my life spun completely out of control – literally.

After a violent car accident and the exposure of my double-life in sin, God brought me emotionally and spiritually to my knees.

I learned through pain -- almost losing my marriage, family, and life – that my relationship with Christ could not be conditional. I fully gave my life to the Lord without reservation.