Some have mistaken Criag Smee's accent as Australian. Those who do are about 6,000 miles off. Smee, who was installed earlier this month as the new lead pastor at Victory Life Church in Brownwood, is from Cape Town, South Africa. Smee replaced former lead pastor Stan Roberts, who relocated with his wife, Kathy, to Sherman. The 46-year-old Smee and his wife, Leanne, who is from Johannesburg, are the parents of three — Kevin, 20, Bianca, 18 and Kyle, a ninth-grader at Victory Life Academy. Craig and Leanne Spree have been in the United States for about five years, and Craig joined the staff of a Victory Life church — part of Duane Sheriff Ministries — in Oklahoma...
