Because You Asked

Don's name gets brought up often in my emails and many of you have asked me who is that guy. Below is a little about Don.

Don Hudson, Director of Evangelism for “Disaster Assistance” lives in Middle Tennessee, where he preaches for the Howell Church of Christ when he is home. The Howell Church is very interested in evangelism and supports him in the many weather related disasters that he and his wife of 46 years, Rosemary, help in each year. This is their fifth year in helping in natural disasters. Don, a graduate of David Lipscomb University ‘63, is responsible for helping in visitation and setting up bible studies as “Disaster Assistance” works in feeding those who are affected by various storms. During last years hurricane season, due to the work of “Disaster Assistance”, many bible studies were established. Don states, “While tornadoes, floods and hurricanes are often horrible, we can share in the heavy loads people bear by helping them with a good hot meal and a good word about Jesus. When we meet people in this sorrowful time, we want them to know that Jesus cares and we Christians care too.”

Here is Don's contact information:

donhudsoncoc@gmail.com 931-698-3150

Don would be glad to talk with you about the Disaster Assistance Mission anytime.

Disaster Assistance CoC First Year Recap

A little over a year ago plans were put in place to start Disaster Assistance CoC. Here is a recap of our first years mission work. On September 6, 2009 I left Florida for Goodwood Church of Christ in Baton Rouge. We spent a little over 2 weeks there setting up bible studies, handing out food boxes and supplies and cooking meals for the people affected by Gustav. Then Ike hit Texas and we move to Lake Jackson,TX and setup at the Lake Jackson Church of Christ. There we did the same things we were doing at Goodwood. Serving meals at the church, taking to go meals out into the community and than preparing meals and taking them to Surfside and serving them there. We held church services there at Surfside two Sundays. From here we moved on to Galveston, TX and setup up at the Broadway Church of Christ. This turned out to be a real challenge. There still was no electric there at the church and everything in the church building had been removed because of the flooding. We setup outside on the street and sidewalk than started cooking with the power of generators using roasters. El Campo Church of Christ brought us a refrigerator/freezer that ran off a generator also. This effort quickly grew until we were serving between 800 and 1000 meals each day. This was made possible only because of the help of many volunteers and churches two numerous to mention because I wouldn't want to leave anyone out. From there we headed over to Port Bolivar and setup up at the Bolivar fire station. The Church of Christ there at Crystal Beach was totally destroyed by the storm. Many truck loads of supplies were passed out and many meals were served. I headed back home on December 6. Our next mission was in Murfreesboro, TN where we worked with the Kingwood Heights Church of Christ after the tornado there. Than a few weeks later we were off to Hemly Road Church of Christ in Bayou La Batre, AL, to spend a week of follow up Evangelism work there. The results of these missions were hundreds of Bible Studies were setup, numerous Baptisms, 11 semi loads of food and supplies were passed out and over 40,000 meals were cooked and served. Now the next couple of months Don has a lot going on at his home church in Howell, TN and I will be mowing, taking care of the pool and picking up supplies for the summer youth camps sponsored by the Church of Christ which starts the 2nd week of June and runs for 6 weeks. I will also continue to update and add new email address to the Disaster Assistance mailing file which now stands at over 10,000 email addresses. We also plan to get everything serviced and be ready for the upcoming Hurricane season. This will probably be the last email you will receive for a few weeks unless a mega disaster happens that would require us to change all our scheduled plans.

If you would like to help us prepare for the upcoming hurricane season you can send donation to:
Disaster Assistance CoC, C/O Church of Christ, 14505 NW 145 Ave, Alachua, Fl 32615.

You can reach Don Hudson our Director of Evangelism at 931-698-3150 or donhudsoncoc@gmail.com