Pastor AND CHURCH HISTORY

PASTOR DONALD D. MORRISON, SR.

“PASTOR DON” was born and raised in Dunn, NC. Both parents were devout Baptist Christians and worked tirelessly in the Baptist Church until their deaths. He was baptized at the age of 10 and has worked fervently in the church since that time, barring the usual bumps, rest stops, and detours along the way.

Pastor Don has served in many leadership roles within the church and the governing bodies of church conferences. He served as an advanced Bible instructor and liaison for conference leaders, pastors, officers, and the church body for more than 30 years. He was an ordained Deacon before being called out into this assignment and becoming ordained as a Minister of the Gospel.

Pastor Don is a Veteran of the United States Air Force. He voluntarily served during the Viet Nam War era as a Medical Service Specialist (“Medic”). He is a practical individual with a keen sense of humor who takes God’s work very seriously. He believes in getting things done without delay. He is known for his no-nonsense approach to being successful at whatever he sets out to do. He gives the best of his services and talents and challenges everyone to try things God’s way if they want to be successful.

Pastor Don spent most of his professional career and retired as a Clinical Physical Health and Mental Health Administrator. He practiced as a Professional Registered Psychiatric Nurse and Clinical Nurse Administrator. He is co-founder, alongside his wife, Evon, of an international designing and manufacturing textile corporation in the health and beauty aids industry. The business operated under its own label and grew to become the largest textile manufacturing AHBAI member in the nation owned by an African American for over 35 years.

Pastor Don is the Founder and President of Character Community Development Corporation (CCDC), which is a 501( c )3 non-profit business rendering real-time intervention, aid, and assistance to individuals and families who are suffering loss. He was educated at North Carolina Central University - Nursing, Psychology, and a list of other university, college, and segmented courses of study in Religion, Business Development, Strategic and Segmented Marketing, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Church Growth and Development.

Pastor Don is married to Evon. They have two sons-Don Jr. who is married to Myrna, Brian, and one grandson-Jacorey.

REAL LIFE OUTREACH CHURCH held its first worship service on the first Sunday in November, 2012. The church has continued to forge forward with the mission that God has ordained for this ministry.

Under the leadership of Pastor Don, the church (in collaboration with CCDC) provides new bicycles for children ages 5-7 for Christmas, provides groceries to feed families of at least 10 members for Thanksgiving, coordinates job placement and training for unemployed individuals, coordinates temporary shelter for stranded and displaced families, assists in the launching of small businesses for ambitious entrepreneurs, provides administrative support, coaching, and training for small businesses to successfully bid and perform large scale national Department of Defense contracts, licensed one minister of the gospel, assists sinners into the saving grace of Jesus Christ with baptism, recruits distant members, supporters, and partners to the ministry from several states, provides in-house security systems training tailored for places of worship, promotes and supports Black History and the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, collaborates with Character Community Development Corporation in rendering intervention, aid, and assistance to individuals and families suffering loss, consults with Community Health Centers in addressing the health and mental health needs of victims affected by the Opioid Crisis, authored and launched the Sleep and Rest pilot project initiative for children who lack adequate Sleep and Rest Space in a safe and sustained environment, visits and reaches out to the lost at local liquor houses and drug havens, operates it’s own “Donnie Olds - Big Mommas House” grocery project for an annual Thanksgiving grocery initiative.

We always have room for more helping hands. Pastor Don and everyone associated with Real Life Outreach Church are volunteers and God gets all the glory!

Real Life Outreach Church members have big hearts and a passion for community outreach and declare excellence in all that we do. We have big thinkers who are not afraid to operate outside the box. Pastor Don is a great inspiration and leads by doing. At Real Life Outreach Church, we LAUGH a lot, WORK a lot, HELP a lot, PRAY a lot, WORSHIP a lot, PRAISE a lot, and GIVE a whole lot.