Doug grew up in Bellevue and began attending Antioch Bible Church back in 1990. Friends at Antioch introduced Doug to Campus Crusade (CRU) the following year, and after joining them for an outreach in 1992 to Osaka, Japan, Doug became hooked on overseas missions. He continued to join CRU on their summer outreach projects and began praying for an open door to go fulltime.
In 2003 that guidance came as a call to help a growing base that YWAM had established in Bangkok, Thailand, right across the street from a huge university. It was the perfect opportunity to use his software and media skills to help their vision of reaching out to youth through music and video and to also use his years of skills in connecting with university students for friendship evangelism.
