Dr. C.B.T. Smith, Pastor Emeritus
By design ... Dallas is know for monumental people, places and things. However, long before the Dallas Cowboys franchise, there was Dr. Clarance Booker Taliaferro Smith.
Dr. Smith, dynamic leader and teacher par excellence, was called to pastor the Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church 1952. That year Harry S. Truman was the President of the United States. The procurement of a loaf of bread was 23 cents and a gallon of ethyl gasoline was 19 cents.
Dr. Smith met and later married his lovely wife, Rosie Lee Hartfield Smith on January 2, 1943. Their maritial bliss lasted more than fifty years until her transition to glory on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008. She was a woman of Godly character, inner beauty, wisdom and style and will be greatly missed.
Most people seek retirement at the ripe age of sixty five, however, Dr. Smith's ministry superseded the normal retirement by fifteen years. Dr. Smith retired in April of 1997, after 55 years of service. Dr. Smith is known nationally as one of God's most gifted servants. His life has been the life of a man exemplyfying the impeccable character of a Godly man. He has lived the Word he has preached before God and his peers. He has served God and humanity untiringly.
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