He is a longtime member of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., where he has taught leadership courses, led seminars and served in various capacities.Īmong his many community responsibilities, Dr. Smith has traveled extensively and has preached in South Africa, Argentina, Zimbabwe, and Cuba. He served as a member of a reconciliation team that worked to bring black and white Baptists together in South Africa, and participated in a successful evangelistic tour to Cuba, where he lectured and preached in seminaries and churches. Following this appointment, he served as the Dean of the Wallace Charles Smith School of Practical Ministries, a school named in his honor, where he retired in 2010.ĭr. Smith was appointed the first African American President of the Palmer Theological Seminary (formerly Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary). He also served as an adjunct faculty member at Howard Divinity School and Wesley Theological Seminary, both of Washington, DC. Smith served as professor of the Practice of Ministry at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee (1988-1991) and assistant professor of Practical Theology at the former Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (1979-1985), where he was the first African American to be appointed to full-time faculty status. Martin Luther King, Jr., served as a student intern while attending Crozer Baptist Seminary. Smith’s ministerial career includes the pastorate of two outstanding congregations: First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville, Tennessee (1985-1991) and Calvary Baptist Church, Chester, Pennsylvania (1974-1985), where Dr. He received the Master of Divinity degree (1974) and the Doctor of Ministry degree (1979) from the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Smith graduated from Villanova University in 1970. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr.
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