[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 19, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3545]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  WELCOMING REVEREND DR. WILLIAM SMITH

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas, 
Congressman Culberson, is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker and Members, born in Kentucky, Dr. William 
H. Smith has pastored Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, 
for the past 19 years. He preached his first sermon there on Father's 
Day, 1991, which was appropriate as he and his wife, Judy Bracewell 
Smith, who hails from my hometown of Houston, Texas, are the proud 
parents of Justin, a physician; Luke, a pastor; and Jason, a surgeon. 
His family also includes Justin's wife, Mairin, and their precious 
daughter, Adelaide, Bill and Judy's first grandchild. Bill's parents, 
Anna and Henry Smith, were powerful models of a Christian home for Bill 
and his brother, Andre. The students at the Leland Center for 
Theological Studies where he teaches biblical studies call him 
Professor. His granddaughter, Adelaide, calls him Pal. And I am proud 
to call him my teacher and friend.
  May God bless you always, Bill and Judy.

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