Through no work of my own, God has chosen to bless me and my family very much.  I was born into a strong Christian family and grew up attending the Methodist church every Sunday in Princeton, West Virginia.  I felt God's call made effectual in my heart by the work of the Holy Spirit when I was 12 years old.  God immediately began my sanctification process and has been teaching me ever since.  Teaching me to understand the magnitude of my sinful nature and how truly amazing God's grace is when you realize that there is not one small piece of our being that can take credit for our salvation.  As it is written in Ephesians, "it is the gift of God".      

I am an Electrical Engineer, graduating from West Virginia University in 1999 and then from graduate school at the University of Tennessee in 2001.  I started work with Cypress Semiconductor in Austin, TX coming back to Tennessee a few months later to marry my wife, Adair, and whisk her away to Texas before she had a chance to change her mind.  After 2 years in Austin, we moved to Denver, CO where we lived for four years.  During that time I worked for Agere Systems and then later for RF Micro Devices designing cellular transceiver chips.  After enjoying the mountains in Colorado, we decided to relocate to Greensboro, (RFMD headquarters) to start a family.  Will was born in March of 2008 and a couple months later RFMD decided to exit our business and terminated around 400 jobs including my own.  That action opened an opportunity for me and some of my colleagues to start our own design center in Greensboro.  Our company name is Orthoradio and we design transceiver chips for 3G and LTE cellular handsets.  We were blessed with our daughter, Adaiah, in June of 2010 and we are expecting a baby boy in January of 2012. 

Adair and I have been very active in the PCA churches where we were members in Texas and Colorado.  We led small group bible study, taught Sr. High Sunday school, were youth leaders, and served in other various areas where there was need.  We joined Christ Community Church in 2008 and are very excited to see God's Kingdom spread and to see the work God is doing in and through our church.

Raised in a Christian home in Sarasota, Florida,   I have always known Christ and His salvation.   My wife Pam and I have been married for 38 years, and we are happy to have our daughter Jen still worshiping with us at this church.  

My favorite verse, and my inspiration, is from David's Psalm 51:12, "Restore to me the joy of Your salvation".   There have been times in my life that I have had to walk with the knowledge that I am saved, which drove my faith, even when my feelings did not agree.   

We came from Tampa to Greensboro and to Christ Community Church in 1993, and found a family of believers that loved Christ and each other.  They quickly became our support team during our son Bryan's illness and eventual death in 1998.   Even though our emotions were devastated for several years following his death, the facts of God's loving salvation carried us through that period.  

I have seen that same loving Spirit growing in this church over the past few years.  I am looking forward to seeing where God takes us, and excited to being a part of His work.   

My name is Bill Sykes.  I have been a member of Christ Community Church for 14 years.  I am married to Barbara, we have 4 adult children and 6 grandchildren.  I am a retired Accountant and worked in the field for over 50 years.

I became a Christian in 1987 in Urbana, Illinois.   Since then my faith has grown mainly because of three things: 1- Bible Study Fellowship, 2- Promise Keepers and 3- The Grace Awaking Series by Charles Swindoll.

I have spent twelve years starting in 1994 in Bible Study Fellowship studying  the Old and New Testaments  because I wanted to learn as much I could about God's Word so I could live my life by it.

I first started attending Promise Keepers events back in 1995 and my last one here in Greensboro in 2005. I learned to love and honor my wife, love my family and love the brethren.

The Grace Awaking Series made me understand that I am saved by grace alone through faith and that I had nothing at all to do with my salvation.  It was all God and His mercy.  So I would sum up my testimony with a stanza from the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul".  

My sin, o, the joy of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! 

With God's help I would consider it an honor to serve as an Elder of Christ Community Church.