Ron Williams

Ron graduated from Freed-Hardeman University with a B.A. degree in Bible in 1979 and received his Masters of Science in Counseling in 1997 from Southern Christian University in Montgomery, AL. He has served in ministry since 1978 and is currently the pulpit minister for the Lincoln Church of Christ in Huntsville, AL where he has served since 1997.

Ron has served as a member of the FHU Advisory Board and is a chaplain for the Alabama Department of Public Safety and State Trooper Office for Madison County.

Ron is co-author with his twin brother, Don, of the book, Walking with Those Who Weep: A Guide to Grief Support, now in its 7th printing. Ron is also a contributing author for the book, a Redeeming the Times: Addressing Issues of the Church in the Present Age, edited by Dyer, Haynes, and Jenkins, 2004.

Ron has taught community grief support classes since 1992 and has conducted grief education classes for congregations, ministers, funeral homes, and hospitals. He has also been involved in facilitating Dealing with Grief and Loss seminars for congregations and other agencies since 1998. He has served as Associate Chaplain for Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Ron has led a monthly grief support class in association with Laughlin Funeral Home and the Huntsville-Madison County Senior Center. He is a certified hospice worker. Ron has taught extension classes in Bible for Faulkner University (1982-83) and has taught counseling and personal development classes at Faulkner University – Huntsville campus (2007-2009).

Ron is married to his childhood sweetheart, the former Bonnie Lawler (1978). Bonnie teaches English at Bob Jones High School in Madison, Alabama. They have two sons, Jon Michael, a firefighter, who is married to Whitney Hopper, a grandson, Luke, and another son, Stephen, who lives in Huntsville and works in the restaurant industry in town.

Get In Touch with Ron

1307 Meridian Street
Huntsville, AL 35801
(256) 851-9060 (home)
(256) 536-7211 (church)
ron@lincolnchurch.org