 Smith's South African model of the in-home meal and story sharing earned the 1989 Beyond War Award, and inspired the sustained Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group in the United States.After the fall of apartheid, Smith helped build a multiracial congregation in Pretoria.Smith continued to be a critic of the (originally white-only) Dutch Reformed Church for perceived slowness in integrating with the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (the successor to the anti-apartheid Dutch Reformed Church in Africa).