The Tennessee Baptist Convention has set up its Disaster Relief Kitchens in five locations across the state, including Nashville.
Volunteers spent Labor Day at the First Baptist Church in Goodlettsville, cooking meals for more than 700 evacuees from the Gulf Coast.
Most of the meals are shipped to other shelters in Nashville.
The rest feed more than 100 evacuees who are housed at the Goodlettsville church.
The Red Cross pays for the food. The Tennessee Baptist Convention supplies the kitchens and the labor.
Volunteers said the kitchens will be open as long as the shelters are.
"If the storm doesn't do a lot of damage some of these folks might go home pretty quick,"
said Murray Johnson. "If they happen to be where their home is flooded or the storm is going on, they may be here for a while."
Other Disaster Relief Kitchens are located in Kingsport, Knoxville, Dyersburg and Memphis.
They are feeding nearly 2,000 Gustav evacuees.
