The Smith Family
Amber,
Marsha, Anna, Alyssa
Austin, Ronnie
Amber
Ronnie - January 22, 1968
Marsha - June 25, 1973
Anniversary - January 25, 1992
Alyssa - January 24, 1993
Anna - April 23, 1994
Amber - December 20, 1996
Austin - September 2, 1998
Emma - December 6, 2009
A brief biography of the ministry
of Ronnie Smith
I was saved at the age of 21on December 17th, 1989.
I met my future wife, Marsha, in February of 1990 and proposed to her
shortly thereafter.
I answered to the call of God on my life to preach the Word
of God on April 1st, 1990.
I enrolled in West Lenoir
School of Ministries in Lenoir, North Carolina in the summer of 1990.
Marsha and I were married on January, 25, 1992. We spent three months in
Buffalo, Wyoming during the summer of 1992 assisting a church planting
missionary. It was in Buffalo that we found out we were expecting our
first child.
We returned to North Carolina in the fall of 1992.
Alyssa was born in January, 1993.
I graduated from Bible
College earning an Associates Degree in Christian Education in the spring of
1993.
Upon graduation God led me to pastor New Hope Baptist Church in
Moore Haven, Florida. I pastored for four and a half years at New Hope and
it was there that the Lord began to place a burden upon my heart for foreign
missions.
In February of 1997 I felt the call of God to leave my home
land and journey to Northern Ireland as a missionary.
In October of 1997I turned the church in Florida over to another pastor
and
returned to my home church, Emmanuel Baptist Church of Granite Falls, North
Carolina.
In 1998 the Lord opened up
the doors of opportunity to visit Northern Ireland and from there the Lord
continued to lead in the direction to get me to that country as a missionary.
Our family was accepted by Macedonia
World Baptist Missions as missionaries to Northern Ireland in December of
1997.
I began deputation in January of 1998, visiting hundreds of
churches telling them of my desire and calling to go to Northern Ireland as a
missionary.
During these years of deputation I re-enrolled in my former Bible College
for another two years and
earned a M.D. in Theology.
In the summer of 2000 I was fully supported by like minded Baptist churches and
was sent out of my home church, Emmanuel Baptist Church, as their missionary to
the land of Northern Ireland.
Our family labored in that land for
eight years during which the Lord brought together a congregation and
established Roe
Valley Baptist Church of Limavady, Northern Ireland.