About Worship Without Borders

We are passionate Worship Mentors who come to your church to nurture, equip and inspire your whole worship team and congregation.

We are trained Worship Teachers who listen to your vision for worship beforehand and help you craft a completely customized seminar around your specific needs and within your budget. Because of our experience we can teach on a variety of church music disiplines.

We are experienced Worship Pastors who will love and encourage your team and pray for your church and your team members by name before we even walk through your doors.

We are qualified Worship Consultants that follow up your seminar with a thoroughly written evaluation of your worship ministry. Every evaluation is packed with recommendations, helping you continue to implement your vision of worship for your church.

We are dedicated Worship Missionaries who go to many nations training, equipping and releasing worship teams and congregations in worship. We bless them with equipment, instruments and supplies to bolster, encourage and invest in worship ministries everywhere.

About Dr. Tim Smith

Dr. Tim Smith is the President of SongSmith Ministries, established in 1994 for the purpose of equipping and releasing worshipers globally. The emphasis on customized Worship Seminars was expanded in 2006 through the creation of Worship Without Borders.

His desire is to encourage, impact and serve worshipers cross-denominationally as well as internationally, regardless of style or methodology. He is just as passionate about expressing love for God in hymns and tradition as he is in progressive worship and the creative song.

Dr. Tim the Educator:

Dr. Tim holds a Bachelor in Music Education from Northwest Nazarene University. He did his post-graduate studies in secondary music education at Western Oregon University and received his Masters of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Moriah Institute of Christian Studies in North Carolina. Dr. Tim has taught orchestra, guitar and choirs in public and private schools for 27 years. He oversaw the Church Music Department of City Bible Church and taught for 13 years at Portland Bible College . While there, he developed a thriving Church Music Ministry Degree Program and raised up many worship teams to minister the word and inspire worship around the world. More than 25 nations have now been touched by these teams. Many of Dr. Tim's former students are now ministering as worship leaders and pastors in churches worldwide.

Dr. Tim the Pastor:

For the past 12 years, Dr. Tim served as a staff pastor at Living Hope Fellowship (Pastor Jess Strickland) in Aloha, Oregon where he not only led the worship ministry of the church, but also functioned pastorally. His role extended beyond the Sunday Worship services to include worshiping with recovery ministry, senior saints and children's ministry as well as leading prayer meetings, counseling, preaching; basically influencing the life of the church on an everyday basis. At the same time, SongSmith Ministries was taking Dr. Tim and his wife, Maryl, into multiple nations as they continued to stir and guide the passion for Jesus Christ in the hearts of worship leaders and worship teams globally.

Eventually, Dr. Tim and Maryl felt God calling them to invest their lives more fully as worship missionaries. In 2006 he resigned his position at LHF, where he continued to be an active member, to devote his energies to Worship Without Borders. His time spent as a pastor gives him a unique and intimate perspective on the impact and challenges of implementing worship in the many unique settings of the local church. This real life understanding deeply impacts his ability to minister practically and to impart faith and vision in a positive and compassionate way. In 2008 Dr.Tim and Maryl joined with The City Church in Seattle, WA where his brother, Dr. Wendell Smith, is Senior Pastor.

Dr. Tim the Composer/Musician:

Tim is a professional cellist as well as an accomplished pianist and guitarist. His love for working with musicians naturally integrates with his skills as a choral and orchestral director, songwriter, arranger, college professor, and worship leader. Dr. Tim has written hundreds of songs, many of which are translated and sung around the world. He is a published composer with Integrity Music and was instrumental in birthing CCLI, an international copyright licensing organization for the church.

About Maryl Smith

Dr. Tim loves to minister and sing alongside his wife, Maryl. She is a flutist as well a drama enthusiast who has written, directed and performed in a broad variety of musical drama presentations. Maryl developed and taught Creative Ministry classes for Portland Bible College. She has written stories for Good Catch Publishing, helping to create quality evangelistic books of personal testimonies, and for Midwifery Today.

Maryl holds an Associates of Theology degree and is nearing completion of a Bachelors of Theology. She is also licensed as a Certified Professional Midwife and has been in both private and group practice for 27 years. Maryl teaches at Christian women's conferences as well as midwifery conferences and her birth-related songs have gone around the world.

Dr. Tim and Maryl have four grown children and 2 grand-daughters (both delivered by their grandmother).

Worship Resources

Tim has written an excellent textbook for training pianists and keyboardists for worship in the church: Piano in Worship. He has recorded live-worship cds, Let the Warriors Arise, Without Hesitation and his latest: Come Be With Me as well as a soon-to-be-released children's scripture memory cd: Sing-alotta. He is currently completing his new book on worship, Worship Without Borders: Discovering Jesus.