Resignation Letter

Dear Church Family

In August of 2000 I came to First Baptist Church in Hot Springs to serve as the Minister to Youth and Young Singles. Over these past eight years, God has blessed me with a great youth ministry with wonderful students, incredible youth workers, a talented staff to serve with and a loving and caring church.

As your Youth Minister I have taught your teenagers to know Christ, serve Him with all their might, worship Him with all their hearts and be a testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their schools, homes, in Hot Springs, in Arkansas, in the US and around the world. I have also taught them to be totally obedient to God and his will for their lives, regardless of how difficult or painful that obedience may be.

Now Danielle and I enter into a season of painful obedience. I am resigning my position as Minister to Youth and Young Singles as of August 24, 2008 to accept the position of Student Pastor at First Baptist Church in Newcastle, Oklahoma. This is a bittersweet season for us as we leave friends who have become family and a ministry where we were and are loved, cared for and prayed for. Please know that we love you and cherish the relationships and experiences that God blessed us with in Hot Springs.

We covet your prayers and appreciate all you have done for us as a couple. We thank God for you and our time here with you at First Baptist Church in Hot Springs.

In Christ,

Craig and Danielle Smith