Reverend Cheryl Moore Adamson, M. Div., Pastor

Reverend Cheryl Moore Adamson is a native of Hartsville, South Carolina and grew up in Conway, where she graduated from high school in 1970.  She joined the Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church on her 13^th birthday and was baptized by the Rev. H. H. Singleton.  She graduated from University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in biology and the University of Maryland at College Park where she earned a Master’s Degree in Health Education in 1982.  Reverend Adamson preached her initial sermon on December 27, 1998 and was ordained on January 6, 2002.  She graduated from Duke University School of Divinity with a Master of Divinity Degree on May 12, 2002.  Reverend Adamson worked as chaplain with Mercy Hospice for three years and presently works as the office manager of Horry Medical Associates, P.A.  She is the founding pastor of the Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church, which began worshipping on Sunday, October 1, 2006.  She has been married for thirty years to Dr. James W. Adamson and is the mother of daughter Mary and son James and mother to many more.