Christine Shoecraft Smith (July 1, 1866 – 1954) was an African-American community worker began her career as the assistant principal of the Alabama State Normal and Industrial School.

She married an AME minister, who would become a bishop in the church and assisted him as the manager of the press organ of the Sunday School Union.

Smith was the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)'s Sunday School Union.

Smith went to work at the press and served as a book-keeper, cashier, and clerk before becoming the assistant manager of the Union, the first woman to hold the post.

[5] Smith was elected president of the Michigan State Association of Colored Women and was an executive member of the Detroit branch of the Urban League.

[8] In 1916, Smith organized the Young People's Department of the AME Church's Women's Parent Mite Missionary Society.

[8][10] In that capacity, she traveled to Kingston, Jamaica several times, to make presentations and assist them in their missionary work.