Our Staff

Dan Adams - Senior Pastor

Dan Adams is the founding and Senior Pastor at RiverTown Church. Born and raised in Jacksonville, He is a Sigma Chi, who married his college sweetheart Amber in June of 1995. Amber is a homemaker, pharmacist and the leader of the women’s ministry at RiverTown. Dan and Amber have two sons, and live in Jacksonville’s Southside.

The teaching style at RiverTown reflects Dan’s commitment to communicating God’s word expositionally with a gospel-driven and relevant focus. Believing that worship should be refreshing and relevant, his teaching strives to overcome the trappings of boring religion and empty ritual by leading people to experience a relationship with Jesus Christ. A relationship with Christ begins with and is all about grace, and that is something that permeates the teaching, worship and culture at RiverTown. The stories of God’s grace in the lives of the people at RiverTown are simply beautiful.

Dan is an alum of Samford University (B.S. in History, 1995), Beeson Divinity School (Master of Divinity, 1998), and Liberty University (M.B.A., 2009). He is wrapping up his Doctor of Ministry degree at Reformed Theological Seminary, and scheduled to graduate in the next year. Dan loves spending time with his wife and coaching his boys in baseball and football. He enjoys golf, or most any other sport in his free time. He loves to eat sushi, wings and of course barbecue (like all good Southern boys). The beach, Amelia Island and Disney are favorites for getting away with the family. His two nicknames are Danny and Wheels.

Dan blogs at danwadams.com. You can find him on twitter at twitter.com/danwadams. You can contact Dan by email at dan@rivertown.com.

Boyd Bettis - Associate Pastor
Boyd is married to his beautiful wife Brittany and has one son named Boyd Whittaker. Whittaker was born October 7th, 2009. Boyd absolutely adores his wife and new son. Boyd serves RiverTown as an Associate Pastor and will be sent out of RiverTown to plant a new church in the future. Boyd enjoys Apple computers, surfing, and sushi.

Boyd graduated of The Baptist College of Florida in 2007 and has a Bachelor's degree in Biblical Studies. He is in the process of completing his Masters of Divinity through Liberty University.

Web love: boydbettis.com, twitter.com/theboydbettis

You can email Boyd at boyd@rivertown.com.

Matt Bush - Families Pastor
Matt Bush has been married for 4 years to his beautiful wife Jessica, and he loves her very much. She is a huge help to him and is involved in every aspect of his ministry at RiverTown Church. Matt's responsibilities as Youth/Family Pastor involve ministering to kids from the time they begin Kindergarten all the way until they graduate High School. God has given Matt a passion to see kids come to know Christ, and to in turn, live for Him since He died for us.
Matt graduated from Georgia Tech in 2001 with a degree in Management (Go Jackets), and is currently working on a M. Div from New Orleans Baptist Seminary. Matt grew up in a town called LaGrange, GA (if you haveheard of it, let him know because not many people have) and has been in Jacksonville for about 6 years. Matt believes that God is doing some amazing things at this church and in this ministry, and considers it a blessing to worship God here.

You can contact Matt by email at matt@rivertown.com.