Helen Smith Shoemaker (March 16, 1903 – January 29, 1993) was an American author, sculptor and Episcopalian church leader, and co-founder of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer.
She was born in New York City on March 16, 1903 to Howard Alexander Smith, a U.S. senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1958, and Helen Babcock Dominick.
In the 1920s in New York, she was attracted to the First Century Christian Fellowship founded by Frank Buchman, that would later become the Oxford Group in 1928, and the Moral Re-Armament movement (MRA) in 1938.
[1] She worked and resided with a First Century Christian Fellowship group at Calvary Episcopal Church in New York, and there met the Rev.
She was the keynote speaker at U.S. President John F. Kennedy's Presidential Prayer Breakfast in 1962 and represented the Episcopal Church at the First Evangelical Congress in Switzerland at the invitation of evangelist Billy Graham.