Doug started preaching at 15, pastored a mission at 16 and a full-time church at 17. He preached and sang in 127 youth revivals before graduating from seminary to serve as minister of education. He launched a religious public relations and advertising firm, then became president of a fund-raising management company.
It was during that period that he led Campus Crusade’s billion-dollar fund-raising campaign that spawned the JESUS film. The challenges of that global effort introduced him to the field of organizational development and led him to launch his own service as creativity consultant. And this opened up opportunities to serve some
commercial clients, adding diverse challenges and larger projects.
Doug’s career took what was for him a strange turn when he was asked to form a new division of the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission as Vice President of External Relations. He retired from that in 1998 to resume creativity consulting from
home and be a caregiver for his first wife through her extended terminal illness.
All the while, his parallel career as cartoonist and banquet entertainer remained the one by which most still identify Doug.
Since marrying childhood sweetheart JoAn Musick-Flowers in 2007, he is involved with her in various charities in their home county.