Global Disaster Consultant and Director
"Dr. John” was born, raised, and educated in Texas, except for his Doctorate, which he received in San Francisco, CA. He is the author of “Walking with God in Broken Places and Lessons I Learned Along the Way”, which tells the story of disaster relief and how God answers prayer in crises. His second book, Divorcing? Remember Me! tells his story of the effects of divorce on him as a young child and what it took to overcome it so that he could walk with God in those broken places. It also tells the story of how he and his wife, both from broken homes, were able to put together a marriage that has lasted 66 years until she passed two years ago. The book covers what God taught him about dating, courtship, and marriage. It is full of helpful hints on how to have a happy marriage. It contains both heartbreak and humor.
Dr. John and his family have traveled the world helping people in disasters for the last 60-plus years. He and his late wife, “Dr. L.”, have two children, John LaNoue, Jr. MD, a pediatric surgeon, and Lydia LaNoue Slinkard (Mrs. Todd Slinkard), a housewife and mother of two girls: Rebecca and Laura, in Atlanta. He has been a pastor, college minister, a denominational worker with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and Lifeway Christian Resources.
Dr. John has received commendations from around the world, including George Bush and dignitaries from North Korea, that refer to him as “Halabaji” (Grandfather) John. As the modern-day “father of disaster relief,” he designed and built the first mobile kitchen in the back of an 18-wheeler container. There are now more than 1100 units nationwide with almost 100,00 trained volunteers to work them. Due to his work with disaster relief, and his strong faith, many have called him “Indiana Jones with a Bible and a skillet.”
You can find out more by calling Dr. John La Noue 903-467-8809 or emailing Dr. John at: drjlanoue@aol.com.
Documented Leadership & Academic Record
Dr. John LaNoue’s life of ministry and humanitarian service was built on decades of leadership development, disaster response, and international relief work.
1989 Doctoral Project
In 1989, Dr. John LaNoue completed a doctoral project at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary titled The Development and Administration of the Leadership Training Program for the New Baptist Young Men's Program Organization for the Churches of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Verified through WorldCat. OCLC Number: 22715547. Holding library: Gateway Seminary Library.
This academic record helps document Dr. LaNoue’s long-standing work in leadership training, ministry development, and organizational service before his later humanitarian relief work through Amigos Internacionales.
A Building Bears His Name
In 2010, Texas Baptist Men dedicated the John LaNoue Disaster Relief Complex in his honor — a 15,000-square-foot expansion of the Robert E. Dixon Mission Equipping Center in east Dallas. The complex houses the TBM fleet of disaster-relief vehicles and a secure communications center with auxiliary power that keeps the command staff connected to field teams in any weather. It is, in effect, the operational headquarters of the movement Dr. John started in a Mesquite driveway four decades earlier.
| Facility name | John LaNoue Disaster Relief Complex |
| Dedicated | 2010 |
| Size | 15,000 square feet |
| Location | Robert E. Dixon Mission Equipping Center, east Dallas, Texas |
| Operated by | Texas Baptist Men (Texans on Mission) |
| Houses | TBM disaster-relief vehicle fleet & generator-backed communications command center |
Texas Baptist Men headquarters, east Dallas.
Source: Baptist Standard, "TBM dedicates expanded disaster relief complex," December 2010 — read the article.
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Former President George Bush saying "Job well done!"
