Authors / Bill Smith
For most of his life, Bill Smith listened for the voice of God and heard it, more often than not, through a person. A mentor in Owensboro, Kentucky, who told a young preacher he had a gift and should not neglect it. A friend who called late on Saturday nights. A congregation in Washington, D.C., in a hard year, and another on 19th Avenue in San Francisco. His memoir gathers those people and the moments they carried, from a shoe shop on 9th Street to the pulpit, and asks what it means to be spoken to.
The title and the cover are still ahead of us. The stories are not; he has been telling them for fifty years. We will say more here as the book takes its shape.
“Those were all voices through individuals.”
Bill Smith, in conversation about the bookBill Smith is a retired Baptist pastor. Raised in Owensboro, Kentucky, he trained at Southern Seminary and went on to serve churches in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, earning a PhD along the way. He and his wife, Judy, have been married for most of the stories in this book.
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