Betty T. Smith is a native Georgian and a retired legal secretary. She has a master's degree in Christian counseling from Logos Christian College in Jacksonville, Florida. Betty has served on lay witness missions with the United Methodist Church since 1975, and has been active in short-term missions with various denominations. She is the mother of two sons and one daughter, and the grandmother of five. In 2008, Betty published her first book with Creation House, Around the World in Seventy Years: Finding Healing & Fulfilling the Pursuit of God.