BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. (ABP) – A predominantly white Baptist college in rural North Carolina might seem an unlikely place to find an urban African-American pastor from California known for an agenda of prophetic justice, but Gardner-Webb University just said goodbye to J. Alfred Smith, pastor
James Smith, president and treasurer of the Missouri Baptist Foundation will retire from his position and will assume a similar post with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Foundation.
By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor COLUMBIA — The Missouri Baptist Foundation board of directors feted their president of 15 years during a banquet held in conjunction with their regular meeting Aug. 4-5 at the Stoney Creek Inn in Columbia. James “Jim” Smith’s 15th anniversary with