Adoration with Evangelist Lewis McIlwain & Featured Guest, Myra Smith

Myra Smith, Missionary / Founder of Ministerio Comedor y Educación de Paz - Myra Smith was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She was saved in 1977 at New Psalmist Baptist Church, where she received her initial call to missions. She later became a member of Immanuel Church of Silver Spring, MD and served as a member of the Missions Council and was ordained a Deacon. Myra made her first short-term mission trip in 1986 to “Prince of Peace” Home for girls in Antigua, Guatemala. Her next trip was to an Indian Reservation in Bimidgi, MN., where she helped home school the children of an Indian pastor. In 1991 she went to Mexico to teach the children of a missionary recovering from thyroid cancer. In 1992 to 1993, Myra volunteered with “The Door”, a Baltimore inner-city after school program for at-risk kids, where she held a Bible study for teens. In November 1995, Myra retired after 28 years of service at the Social Security Administration to serve full-time in Guatemala at the Songs of Joy Home for Children as Assistant Director and as Director of Cyrus’ House for girls.In April 2004, after serving eight years at Songs of Joy Home for Children, Myra began a new ministry in Chiquimula, Guatemala to help poor women and their families. She started a new ministry called Ministerio Comedor y Educación de Paz, Chiquimula (MCYEP) and later a church called “Dios Es Nuestra Paz” (God is our Peace). Her desire is that one day a Guatemalan couple will pastor the church.  Myra believes that the mother is the heart of the family. She can influence her children and spouses for the good. Myra is the mother of one grown daughter, Lilith, who lives in the United States and two “almost adopted” Guatemalan children, Aimee and Angel Daniel.