“Helping people dismantle spiritual strongholds and trauma-formed identities through Scripture, deliverance, and nervous system healing.'“

Adam “A.D.” Lumkile Thomason is a pastor, chaplain (NBA), filmmaker, and teacher whose work explores the intersection of biblical deliverance, trauma healing, and the subconscious mind with the Holy Spirit. Through teaching, writing, and pastoral ministry, Adam helps people confront the lies that shape identity, dismantle spiritual strongholds, and experience freedom through the truth and love of Yeshua.

Adam serves as a pastor and chaplain within the professional sports community, including ministry with the Atlanta Hawks, where he walks alongside athletes and leaders navigating identity, pressure, and purpose. His pastoral work among high-performing leaders has become a living laboratory for the integrated approach he teaches—addressing the spiritual, psychological, and embodied dimensions of human freedom.

Drawing from Scripture, ancient Hebraic theology, and emerging insights in trauma research and nervous system science, Adam teaches an integrated framework of healing that refuses to divide the spiritual from the embodied and Christ is Lord of them all. A key theme in his teaching is the biblical distinction between possession and demonization. The New Testament Greek term daimonizomai describes people under spiritual influence without implying ownership by darkness. Adam explores how spiritual oppression often operates through lies, shame, and agreements that become embedded in both belief systems and the nervous system—and how truth, worship, and prayer can restore the whole person.

Adam is the Executive Director of Red Revolution Ministries, a global movement focused on reconciliation, discipleship, and spiritual formation. For more than twenty five years he has taught and ministered across more than thirty-five countries—including Sudan, Kenya, South Africa, China, Greece, and Palestine—helping communities navigate faith, identity, and reconciliation in ethnically and politically divided environments.

A three-time award-winning filmmaker, Adam is the co-founder of 3StrandFilms and director of projects including ANUMASA, MUY DIFÍCIL, and AND HUMAN. His storytelling explores themes of justice, faith, and the human search for freedom.

Adam previously served as an adjunct professor at Kilns College where he taught the History of Human Rights and Justice, De-colonizing Your Faith, and filmmaking. He has also lectured at Stanford University on filmmaking and discovering one’s story.

He is the author of Permission to Be Black: My Journey with Jay-Z and Jesus, a personal exploration of faith, race, identity, and mental health.

Adam holds a Doctorate of Education focused on race relations, the transatlantic slave trade, and reconciliation, a Master’s degree in Biblical Studies, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Adam and his wife Dawntoya are passionate about healthy marriage and relationships, believing that restoration in families is foundational to the healing of communities and cultures.

Through Red Revolution, filmmaking, pastoral ministry, and global teaching, Adam continues to help people encounter the freedom that comes when lies are exposed, shame is broken, and the love of Christ restores the whole person—spirit, soul, and body.

Education

Doctoral of Education ––focus on race relations, the slave trade, and reconciliation (Ed.D/Th.m)

Masters in Biblical studies

B.F.A. from Savannah College of Arts and Design (Fashion design-focused degree)

Books: The Shovel Effect ( best book on leadership and business practices 2022) Permission to be Black: My journey with Jay Z and Jesus (mental health and spirituality Feb 2021). List to the theatrical prequel Confessions of an ex-evangelical: Why I left Christianity and started practicing Jesus here.

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Author of Red Revolution (a study on race relations and what Jesus would say)

Countries reached

Germany Healing and deliverance (2026)

Austria Healing and deliverance (2026)

Cuba

Guatemala x 2 (2022)

Uganda (2022)

Ghana (2018 & 2022, 2023, 2024)

Colombia/Venezuela border (2018)

Matla (2018)

Italy (2018)

France (2018)

Nepal (2017)

Thailand (2017)

Qatar (2015)

Iraq (2015)

Nicaragua (2013)

Turkey (2011)

Sudan x2 (2009-10)

South Africa x2 (2009, 2017)

Sudan x2 (2009-10)

China (2008)

Greece (2004)

Kenya (2004)

Palestine (2000)

West Bank–Gaza strip (2000)

Diverse experiences of note

Played basketball and lived in Palestine. (volunteered inside the Palestinian refugee camp)

JH Ranch river guide

Mountain hiker (summited Mount Shasta)

Model and fashion designer

Record label owner (Collision Records)

Brander and Graphic designer

Semi-professional basketball player

Has held a pastoral position for 25 years 

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