Dr. David N. Smeltz was born in Lynchburg, Virginia during World War II. His parents were hard working people trying to make a life after the war. As a child, he lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania and at the age of seven, his family moved to Hialeah, Florida. He attended elementary, junior high and high school while residing in Florida. At age seventeen, he entered the Army and spent a little over one tour in Vietnam. After returning home from Vietnam in 1966, he went to work as a plumber and attended Junior College. In the fall of 1970, he met a young woman by the name of Susan Odell who invited him to church. While attending a revival in October 1970 he received Christ as his Savior and Lord. In February of 1971, he married Ms. Odell and they have been married for forty-six years. In 1973, he and his wife surrendered to the Gospel Ministry.