First Baptist Church Pastor Butch Adcock and his wife, Polly, moved over the weekend to Sequim, Wash., to take First Baptist Church there.
The Adcock family moved to Sweet Home in July 1986 to take the church here from Kalispell, Mont. Both churches are part of the Southern Baptist Convention.
“Hey, it’s been a good ride,” Pastor Adcock said. “It’s been good. We raised most of our family here. Our children have certainly benefited from their experience in Sweet Home schools. We are really pleased with the opportunities we had for our family here. We got to take in Division I football and take in a few more of the arts.”
The family often visited the Hult Center for plays in Eugene, Pastor Adcock chuckled. “That’s was the family’s attempt to reform me, which failed.
“Sweet Home was good for us.”
During his time in Sweet Home, Pastor Adcock was active in the community. He served on the School District 55 Budget Committee and later as a school board member. He also volunteered in Boys and Girls Club sports, including basketball and football. He was also active with junior high basketball.
“(Polly) did tremendous work in the church,” Pastor Adcock said. She did the secretarial work, taught and “was extremely supportive.”
She spent most of the time as a stay-home mother, “which made a world of difference in our family,” Pastor Adcock said.
Pastor Adcock said he is headed for Sequim because of “one clear call. Like the sea buoy at Neha Bay, the Lord called. There was nothing more clear than that it was time to go. We’ll miss Sweet home. We have friends here that we will definitely miss.
Whether picking huckleberries in the mountains or jumping into the South Santiam River, “we’ll miss it,” Pastor Adcock sad.
Sequim is a town of about 4,500 persons in an area of about 20,000. Its high school is about the same size as Sweet Home’s. The town is located about 30 minutes east of Port Angeles, about an hour and 10 minutes from Tacoma, between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Olympic Mountains.
The town is located in the Olympic Mountains’ rain shadow and gets only about 16 inches a year, less than Los Angeles.
Pastor Adcock said he wants to emphasize preaching, teaching and witnessing when he arrives at Sequim.