Bart Smith is a joyful follower of Jesus, bi-vocational Presbyterian pastor, and social worker who is passionate about being a conduit for the love of God.
Prior to being called as Immanuel’s interim pastor, he was a monthly supply pastor at Papago United Presbyterian Church in the Tohono O’Odham Nation and Sells, Arizona. He is currently a student in the Master of Social Work program at Arizona State University’s Tucson campus with an emphasis in Advanced Direct Practice in Behavioral Health with Adults.
Bart served as the lead pastor of St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church in Midtown Tucson for eight years and, with that congregation and its partners, engaged in a wide range of social justice and community ministries. Before moving to Tucson, he pastored churches in southwestern Virginia. He has over 17 years experience working with a variety of congregations, church institutions, and nonprofit organizations, and has served the wider Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in volunteer leadership roles.
Claiming both Macon and LaGrange, Georgia, as hometowns, Bart is a graduate of the University of Georgia (go Dawgs!) and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and was ordained by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. He is proudly married to the Rev. Elizabeth Toland Smith, who pastors St. John on the Desert Presbyterian Church in Tucson. Together they enjoy traveling, hiking, and hanging with their senior hound-mix dog, Gumby.
Rev. Bart Smith
Interim Pastor