A Sermon that Sings

Authors

Office of University Communications

Files

Description

Dr. J. Alfred Smith was born to be a preacher. But for Smith, who is Pastor Emeritus of Allan Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, Calif., and who served this spring as Gardner-Webb University’s first Scholar in Residence, a life in the pulpit was not his earliest aspiration. “I play the saxophone,” Smith says, “and I wanted to be a jazz musician.”

Publication Date

6-18-2011

Publisher

Gardner-Webb University

City

Boiling Springs

Keywords

Allan Temple Baptist Church, American Baptist Seminary of the West, Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Dr. Larry George, Dr. Sherri Adams, Dr. Terry Casino, King James Bible, Rev. Bernestine Smith, Scholar in Residence, School of Divinity

Recommended Citation

Office of University Communications, "A Sermon that Sings" (2011). Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive. 2071.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/2071