Covenant News

Memorial Service for Terry Smith Set for Wednesday

HALLOWELL, ME (August 27, 2004) - A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, September 1 at the Old South Congregational Church for Covenant pastor Terry Smith, who died Friday morning as the result of injuries suffered in a fall.

The 60-year-old Smith and his wife, Christine, had been living in Hallowell, Maine. Last Wednesday, Smith sustained a head injury while working on a home they were moving into during retirement, according to a friend of the family. He was then put on life support at a hospital in nearby Freeport.

Robert Dvorak, superintendent of the East Coast Conference, stated that Smith had served with a United Church of Christ congregation in Holyoke, Massachusetts, prior to moving to Maine. Before that, he was pastor of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Batavia, Illinois, from 1986 to 1996.

While serving from 1974-86 as pastor of what is now the Covenant Church of Easton, Connecticut, Smith was secretary and vice chair of the East Coast Conference board and had been chair of the regional ministerial association.

Born September 19, 1943 in Portland, Maine, Smith earned his undergraduate degree in religious studies from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and then earned a degree from what is now Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. In 1975, he earned a Doctorate of Ministry from Andover-Newton Theological School in Massachusetts. He transferred his ordination from the American Baptist Church to the Evangelical Covenant Church in 1976.

Along with his wife, Smith is survived by a son, Mike, a daughter, Heidi and son-in-law David.

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