Rev. Robert Hudson was born the eighth of eleven children to a Baptist pastor and his wife.  He has been married to Rosie (nee Weston) for thirty-two years and they have one daughter, Deanna Rose Hudson, and two sons, Charles Matthew and Emmanuel James, and one grandson, Caleb Jordan Hudson.

 

Rev. Hudson has served as an ordained minister for over twenty years.  He was an ordained deacon for five years prior to that.  During the past twenty-two years, he developed and presented numerous seminars with topics ranging from prayer to marriage and family life.  He also developed and delivered programs for training deacons and disciples.  He is a Certified Instructor with the Sunday School Publishing Board and has taught classes at the church, district, and state levels.  He is a member of Morning Star M.B.C. where he formerly served  as Chairman of the Deacon Board, Teacher of the Men's Sunday School Class, Director of Missions and Evangelism, and many other areas.  Rev. Hudson served previously as the Assistant Director of the 13th District Congress of Christian Education and Assistant Executive Secretary of the Parent Body.  He has served for over four years on the Finance Committee of the Louisiana Missionary Baptist State Convention.

 

Rev. Hudson received his high school education from McCall High School in Tallulah, LA.  He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Southern University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.  He graduated with  Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980, and  PhD in Religious Counseling from Louisian Baptist University in 2002.

 

Rev. Hudson was an Assistant Professor in the Science and Technology Department of Southern University at Shreveport for ten and half years.  For fifteen years, Rev. Hudson worked as Product and Process Design Engineer and seven years as a Manager and Director of Technology Development and Humn Resource Planning and Development for Bell Lboratories, Lucent Technologies, and Avaya, Inc.  He is the president and owner of The Gospel Shop, LLC.

 

In 2004, Rev. Hudson was called as Pastor of the Paradise Baptist Church and hs served in that capacity for over 10 years.  He was elected Moderator of the 13th District Missionary Baptist Association in 2010.  He was recently re-elected to serve a second term.