Kurt M. Smith is the pastor-teacher of Providence Reformed Baptist Church. He is the grateful husband of 30 years to his wife, Lorrie, and the delighted father to three children – two of which have reached adulthood while one at present remains a pre-teen. He and Lorrie are also the proud grandparents to their granddaughter, Laura Belle! Kurt has served in the Gospel ministry for 30-plus years, where he’s had the joy and privilege to preach and teach God’s Word across the southeast in multiple churches via itinerant evangelism and in the service of pastoring three local churches in his native state of Georgia. Likewise, in 1996, he traveled to Great Britain, ministering God’s Word for a season in Sheffield, Yorkshire – “doing the work of an evangelist” in schools, workplaces, homes, and churches. Kurt holds a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Luther Rice Bible College (Lithonia, GA), an Associate degree in Commercial Art from the Lane School of Art (Decatur, GA) and is a published author in the genre of Christian biography and Church History. His works include Thundering the Word: The Awakening Ministry of George Whitefield (2020), Piety, Passion, Paradox: The Life and Legacy of Basil Manly, Sr. (2019), Remembering Luther’s Fight: A Primer on Martin Luther’s Life and Legacy of Standing for the Gospel (2017), Holding Georgia for Geneva: P.H. Mell and the Baptist Defense for Calvinistic Orthodoxy (2017), and is co-author to The Gospel Heritage of Georgia Baptists: 1772-1830 (2016) – these works are published by Free Grace Press and Solid Ground Christian Books respectively. He’s also a contributing author to the multi-volume series, A Noble Company: Biographical Essays on Notable Particular-Regular Baptists, published by Particular Baptist Press. His newest publication will be from Founders Press in late summer 2024, entitled “A Pastor in Revival: How Jonathan Edwards Discerned and Defended the Great Awakening.” Kurt presently serves on the Administrative Council of The Southeastern Association of Confessional Baptist Churches and is a board member for The Deep South Founders Conference. The most shaping influences in his life for Christian living and pastoral ministry, in subjection to God’s Word, have been John Owen (1616-1683), Jonathan Edwards (1703-1757), George Whitefield (1714-1770), J.C. Ryle (1816-1900), C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), and Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981). Apart from family and pastoral ministry, Kurt’s pastime indulgences are deer hunting, playing drums and guitar, and reading history from the fields of Military, Politics, and the Old West.