Doug grew up as a pastor’s kid in the great state of Nebraska (and lived to tell about it). He vowed his love and faithfulness in marriage to Laura Peterson in 1993. God has blessed their lives with two terrific kids – a daughter, Segrid, and a son, Noah. Upon leaving his home of origins Doug attended MNU and eventually, after a significant detour, ended up in pastoral ministry himself. He joined the pastoral team of GC in Feb. ’09. His job is to build, equip, release and resource lay ministry teams to minister to children, teens and adults which works out well because his great passion in life is to help people of all ages find, in Christ, life that is really life.