Randy Adams, Ph.D. is Senior Bible Teacher and Director for Washington D.C. based Capitol Ministries. He teaches three Bible studies weekly for U.S. Senators, U.S. House,and the White House Cabinet and State Governors. He is the retired Executive Director-Treasurer, Northwest Baptist Convention, Vancouver, WA. Randy grew up in Whitefish, MT and is a graduate of Montana Tech in Butte, MT with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering (1983). In college he taught a high school Sunday school class at Floral Park Baptist Church and led the Baptist college ministry at Tech. These experiences led to a call from God to preach the gospel, so he moved to Texas where he attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, earning an MDIV and PhD (1986 and 1993). In addition to pastoring three churches, Randy led the missions and evangelism team for Oklahoma Baptists before moving to the Northwest in 2013. In addition to teaching as an adjunct professor at Gateway Seminary (2014-2025), he has taught and preached in mission conferences in Pakistan, India, Thailand (twice), Singapore (twice), Hong Kong, Malawi, Uganda, Peru, Kyrgyzstan, and Myanmar (twice), as well as multiple evangelism, preaching, and discipleship conferences in the U.S. Randy has been married to Paula since 1981. Together they have two grown, married sons;Rett and Jessica, and Luke and Hannah. Before becoming a stay-at-home mom, Paula was a software engineer at Bell Helicopter and General Dynamics (Master’s from TCU). Paula joins Randy weekly in Washington D.C. where she serves with him as hostess in each of the three Bible Studies.