Kris Smith

Kris was born April 1, 1963 in Wichita, KS. His parents moved to Lubbock a few years later to attend the Sunset School of Preaching. Kris grew up as a preacher’s kid in Wyoming, Kansas and Texas along with his brothers Jeff (who Directs the Discipletrips ministry) and Jon who is preaching in Indiana. He spent his High School years in Botswana, Africa as a missionary’s kid then attended AIM in 1981 and served in Lesotho. Barb was one of his AIM teammates and they eventually married after returning to the States. Kris worked for the Dover Elevator company in Wichita, Kansas for 5 years where their two children Logan and Amy were born.  In 1991 they returned to Sunset to attend SIBI and then moved to Kosice, Slovakia as missionaries. In 1998 they returned to Lubbock to work with the AIM program where Kris served as the AIM Missions Coordinator for 2 years and then the AIM Director for 18 years. In 2018 Kris began working with Betenbough homes. 

Kris enjoys creating things out of both wood and metal as well as camping, fishing, and spending time with family and friends.