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Cynthia Lasseter Smock (born March 16, 1958), better known as Sister Cindy, is an American evangelist who conducts yearly preaching tours at many American university campuses, often mirroring the preaching style of her late husband, George Smock Jr., who she'd often accompany during his cross-country campus preaching tours until his death in 2022.

Biography
Cindy Smock was born in 1958. She grew up in southern Georgia and northern Florida. Cindy began attending University of Florida in 1976, majoring in journalism and writing for the student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator.

Smock first encountered her husband George "Brother Jed" Smock Jr., a traveling preacher, when he visited the University of Florida in 1977. Smock heckled him as he preached to students. A year later, she attempted to seduce Brother Jed to prove that he was a hypocrite for a news article she wanted to write. He denied her advances and began bringing her to church. Smock converted to Christianity and Brother Jed baptized her in the Gulf of Mexico on New Year's Day, 1979.

Smock began preaching in February of 1979 while still a student at University of Florida. In May, she abandoned her studies and a potential career in journalism to join Jed's ministry, The Campus Ministry USA. She was initiated into the ministry at Bowling Green State University that same month. There she preached with Jed for the first time and was thrown into a pond by a group of students.

Smock and Brother Jed married in 1983. Throughout their marriage, Sister Cindy preached alongside Jed at universities across the United States and other countries.

In 2021, Smock gained popularity on TikTok as videos of her preaching went viral. She made her own account and has amassed hundreds of millions of views on her posts.

On June 6, 2022, her husband Jed passed away. Smock continues to travel and preach without her husband. She named her 2022 tour of United States campuses the "Brother Jed Memorial Tour" in his honor.

Personal life
Smock married George "Brother Jed" Smock on July 30, 1983. They had five children together that they home-schooled.

Preaching style and personal views
Smock identifies as Methodist by church membership and practices evangelism. She received her religious education and training from her husband and is a member of The Campus Ministry U.S.A. The ministry focuses on college campuses in an attempt to impact future influential leaders and because universities typically have freedom of speech policies.

Brother Jed named their distinctive preaching style "confrontational evangelism." This variant of evangelism is characterized by using provocative language to draw a crowd and relying on open rebuke to convert the audience. This entails dramatically accusing their audience of sin and asking them to repent.

Smock engages crowds through a variety of means, including what she describes as "Good old-fashioned slut-shaming." Smock will shout things such as "Some of you ladies are here to major in oral sex."

Smock often brings pop-culture references into her preaching. She named her 2023 tour of college campuses the "HO-NO-MO Tour" and was regularly referenced the Cardi B song W.A.P. to her audiences.

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