Reverend Melissa K. Smith
Associate Pastor
I went to Whitworth University in Spokane, WA to study theology and minor in Biblical Languages, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Theology: Biblical Studies in 2018. Throughout my college experience I had four pastoral internships. Two of these internships were at the church I grew up in, one at a church in Burbank, CA, and one that brought me to Belhelvie, Scotland.
After my graduation, I moved back to Los Angeles to attend Fuller Theological Seminary, earning her Master of Divinity in 2021 Simultaneously, I worked in her fifth church internship for three years. In the summer of 2021 I completed her Clinical Pastoral Education at Arcadia Methodist Hospital (now USC Arcadia Hospital).
I moved to St. Louis, MO in the spring of 2022 to accept a call as the Associate Pastor of Congregational Life at Dardenne Presbyterian Church.
After my graduation, I moved back to Los Angeles to attend Fuller Theological Seminary, earning her Master of Divinity in 2021 Simultaneously, I worked in her fifth church internship for three years. In the summer of 2021 I completed her Clinical Pastoral Education at Arcadia Methodist Hospital (now USC Arcadia Hospital).
I moved to St. Louis, MO in the spring of 2022 to accept a call as the Associate Pastor of Congregational Life at Dardenne Presbyterian Church.