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Scott Smith

I was born in Georgia. I was born again in 1976. I was not raised in a Christian home and endured a pretty difficult childhood. My father died when I was 12 years of age and my mother had a nervous breakdown. I had heard about Jesus and God, but thought that Jesus was just for old people who were about to die and that it was a pretty boring religion. I reached the end of my rope at age 16 and was out in the woods by myself when I told God that if He existed, He could have my life. I told God that I was sorry for how I had lived my life and that if He wanted me, He could have the rest of my life, and I meant it! Lightning bolts didn’t come out of the sky and I didn’t really feel any different, but after that people started asking me why was I different. I started to have feelings that I had never had before and doing things that I had never done before, like apologizing to people I had hurt. I realized that something was growing inside of me and it wasn’t a self imposed discipline that someone had placed upon me. I was born again! I no longer desired to do the bad things that I had been doing and I had a desire to read the Bible and go to church and I had a burning desire to serve God in ministry. Well, in 1977 God joined me with the Goff family (Valene’s family), who were missionary evangelists. I had the privilege of seeing the hand of God move on a daily basis while I was living with them for about year and a half. I then struck out on my own by faith and got to experience God move for me first hand.

I am the father of five children. At age 33 I lost my first wife to cancer and my mother to emphysema. I went through a very difficult time in my life. I thank the Lord for His grace and mercy.

30 years passed by as my life took a different path from the Goff family. Now I am reconnected with them and by God’s divine direction have married Valene, their youngest daughter. Valene and I have a burning desire to live the remainder of our lives in the full-time service of our Lord. We continually pray for God to mold us into the people He wants us to be.