I, also, served in our Colson Baptist Mission as their music director (1999) where we began an adult choir and had their first-ever Christmas cantata.   In December of 1989, I was called as the Director of Music and Senior Adults here at Whitesburg First Baptist and served until 1994.   From 1994 until 2000, I was the Youth and Music Director at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Jenkins, KY where we began a children's choir, youth choir and orchestra.   I am now back home here at Whitesburg and serving again as the Interim Minister of Music.  

On December 22, 1977, I married Timothy Vanover, my high school sweetheart, at the Fleming Baptist Church, where we were both members.  

In December of 1978, Tim and I moved our membership from the Fleming Baptist Church to Whitesburg First Baptist.   We reared our children, Aaron and Autumn, in this wonderful church where both of them were saved at a very early age.

My Personal Testimony

I was raised by two very devoted Christian parents, John and Dorcas Smith.     My daddy was a deacon and the song leader, and my mommy was a Sunday School teacher, Girls in Action Leader, and a choir member. So I was in church every time the doors were open.   At the very young age of five years old, I asked Jesus to come into my heart and He did!   Being so young, the only thing that I knew about salvation was that I wanted to go to Heaven and live with Jesus if I should die. For a child, that was enough to know.   So, on August 26, 1964, I accepted Jesus into my heart on a Sunday evening at the Fleming Baptist Church and was baptized the next Sunday evening.   From that time on, the Lord has blessed me in so many ways. I grew up in a wonderful church family that helped mold, shape and mature my faith. Then, at the age of sixteen, during a youth revival at Fleming Baptist Church, I felt God's call upon my life for Christian service.   My desire is to serve my wonderful Lord in whatever He wants me to do.