Baptist Press
By Connie Pearson, posted March 14, 2024 in Movies
Popular contemporary Christian artists Rebecca St. James, her brothers Luke and Joel Smallbone who constitute For King & Country and four other siblings are blessed with a remarkable story and a mom who is a spiritual role model. The story of the Smallbone family’s journey from Australia to Tennessee and their mom Helen’s unwavering faith will be told in a movie to be released April 26 called “Unsung Hero.”
When the Smallbones moved to Brentwood, Tenn., in the early 1990s, they were in the same neighborhood as Kay Dekalb Smith and her family. Kay grew up in Hartselle, Ala., watching her mom reach out to children in the housing projects, inviting them to Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church Hartselle and returning to their homes with bags of clothes and groceries. It became part of Kay’s DNA to find ways to meet the needs of struggling people around her. Along the way, she shared her vocal talents and hilarious wit with church groups across the state of Alabama. She was crowned Miss Alabama Teenager at age 17 and Miss Birmingham in 1973. She married Ed Smith in 1982, and they moved to Brentwood and had two daughters. More Here
