ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Doug Houser grew up in the Pacific Northwest. After serving in the Army during the Vietnam War, he joined a wilderness search and rescue team and earned a biology degree from Whitworth University. In 1978, Doug traveled with a Christian band to New Jersey to help plant new churches, where he became a pastor and pioneered Christian schools. Doug taught biology and forensic science in public schools for twenty years. He was married to his wife Barbara for twenty-five years and has two sons, Adam and Jonathan.