Earline Smith is an Arkansas native.  She graduated from East Side High School, Menifee, AR and attended Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR.  She earned an Associated Degree in Applied Science in Business Administration from Blair Junior College, Colorado Springs, CO.  She is currently attending Ruach School of Theology, Port Arthur, TX.

Mrs. Smith worked as a Civil Servant for the Department of the Army for more than 33 years before retiring as a Contracting Officer Representative in September 2019 after serving for more than 28 years at Evans Army Community Hospital, Fort Carson, CO.

Sister Earline has served in the Women’s Ministry for more than 35 years; she was appointed by Pastor M. E. Proby in 2000 as the President of the St. John’s Baptist Church Women’s (Mission) Ministry and served for ten years.  She was appointed and served two terms as the Woman’s President of the Colorado Baptist Southern District Association.  She also served as the Secretary for the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Western States Baptist Convention under the leadership of Woman’s President, Deaconess Alma D. Johnson which has been one of her most rewarding experiences.  She was appointed as the WSBC Woman’s President in 2019 by Convention President Hendricks and continues to serve under President Thompson.

Minister Earline has been a member of the historic St. John’s Baptist Church since arriving as a military family in Colorado Springs in the Summer of 1986.  She has always had a love for Sunday School/VBS and continues to serve in Christian Education where she enjoys studying the Word of God with her church family & friends.

The encouragement and wisdom she has received from the Women of God in her church family and throughout the Convention has inspired and prepared her to stand in the gap for the kingdom of GOD for such a time as this.