Marci Rollins-Smart is a native of nearby Pikeville in Wayne County, NC.  Marci's family has very strong roots in the Original Free Will Baptist denomination, and she was raised in First OFWB Church of Goldsboro. Upon graduating from Charles B. Aycock High School, she went to Mount Olive College where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in religion with a minor in Christian Education.  She then entered Campbell Divinity School where she earned her master of divinity with an emphasis in Christian Education.  She also received her certification for preschool and children ministry from the Baptist State Convention of NC while at Campbell and completed a half-unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. 

Having been involved in ministry to children and youth since 1998, Marci came to Little Rock as our full-time children and youth minister in February of 2007.  All age groups from birth through high school graduation fall under Marci's care and supervision at our church.  Her previous work experience includes working in the Public Affairs and Admission offices at Mount Olive College, serving as children & youth minister at Reedy Branch OFWB Church in Winterville, working as an editorial assistant at the FWB Press in Ayden, and writing Sunday School material for the denomination and serving as camp counselor at Cragmont Assembly for many years.  In addition to her work at Little Rock, Marci is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Religion at Mount Olive College and is co-director of the Western District Youth of the OFWB Convention.  In what little spare time she has, Marci enjoys scrapbooking and doing geneological research. She and her husband, the Rev. Kelley Smart, make their home in Farmville.  Her husband is the associate pastor at Free Union OFWB Church near Walstonburg, NC.