Since childhood, Smith felt the call to do language missions, which led her to achieve a master’s degree in Foreign Language Education through the Auburn Study Abroad program. Her studies and sojourn with a French family inspired her to write France Insolite: Spiritual Journeys in France. Teaching languages has helped her to make many multi-cultural friendships partnering her to inspiring mission trips in Mexico, Martinique, Haiti, and France. She has also served as an interpreter for the deaf and as a teacher of a Special Friends Sunday School class with her Down’s Syndrome daughter, Carey Beth.