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p ,~r7.,:J..,,-,.~£ PAGE 4, THE DUPLIN TIMES-PROGRESS SENTINEL, DECEMBER THE REV. AND MRS. JOHN W. SMITH were among 23 persons appointed missionaries December 13th in Fredericksburg. Va. by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. During the service at Spottswood Ba ti_st Church. the Smiths were employed as missionary associa es o East Africa, where he will be a maintenance manager and she will be a nurse. Currently Smith is pastor of Hallsville Baptist Church near Beulaville. A native of Magnolia. Smith is a U.S. Navy veteran and served 24 years as an engineman and later as chief machine technician with the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. He has also farmed for 15 years and worked for the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S.D.A for seven years. Smith received a certificate in theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest. He is a former pastor of Swan Quarter Baptist Church and New Salem Baptist Church in Pittsboro. He has also owned and operated his own construction business in Wake Forest. The former Christine Smith of Duplin County. Mrs. Smith attended Rex Hospital School of Nursing in Raleigh and achieved her registered nurse standing in 1951. For ten years she was general duty nurse, headnurse. and later supervisor at Sampson County Memorial in Clinton. She also was infirmary nurse for Southeastern Seminary. and later office nurse for a private physician in Wake Forest. They have four grown children.
