Marcia Fleischman Co-pastor	Paul Smith Co-pastor

Marcia Fleischman
Co-pastor

Marcia grew up in Lexington, Missouri. In 1970, she recieved a Certificat des Études Français Modernes at the Université de Strasbourg in France. Her education continued in Amercia at DePauw University in Greeencastle, Indiana, where she received a B.A. in French and Education. Marcia received a Masters of Education in Guidance and Counseling at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972. Marcia has been a member at Broadway Church since 1975 and joined the church staff as a Children's Minister in June of 1985.

She received her Masters of Divinity in Theology at the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri in 1993, graduating with honors. Marcia holds the patent for the BlessMyBodBra^®, which sold on QVC. After surviving a double lung transplant in February 2003, Marcia began to paint pictures of the visions of angels she received. Her spiritual gifts include prophecy, encouragement, leadership, and hospitality.

Paul Smith
Co-pastor

Serving several Southern Baptist churches in St. Louis while in high school and college, he completed his BA in psychology at Washington University in 1959 on a full academic scholarship. During that time, he also founded and led a series of annual youth camps and college retreats that were attended by thousands of young people over a period of ten years.

After receiving a Masters degree in theology and biblical studies from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, he came to Broadway Baptist Church in midtown Kansas City in 1963 where he continues to pastor and teach today.

In his over forty years as pastor at Broadway, the church experienced significant and on-going change, becoming nationally recognized as a pioneer in small groups, contemporary worship, team leadership, justice issues, progressive theology, church renewal, and spiritual formation.

In 1980 he created a workshop on spiritual gifts which is used around the world, with over thirty thousand copies of the materials in print including Spanish, German, and Portuguese editions.

He delivered the 1988 Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture Series at William Jewell College and has been listed in every edition of Who's Who in Religion since 1974. He was given the GLAAD Leadership Award in 1995.

Smith has taught extensively on contemporary church life in many churches and schools including St. Paul Methodist School of Theology, Unity Ministerial School, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has given over one hundred seminars on various aspects of spiritual life around the country.

In addition to hundreds of CDs, numerous brochures, booklets, and published articles outlining his theological beliefs and practices, he contributed two chapters to the book Enabling the Dialogue About Homosexuality, and has authored two books, The Church With Something to Offend Almost Everyone, and Is It Okay To Call God Mother? Considering the feminine face of God.

He has two children and three grandchildren.