Doug Poole

Doug Poole spent his life between 0-12 growing up on a farm in Oklahoma and then moving to Wichita, Kansas until eighteen. Completing High School at Wichita South, then on to college at the University of Oklahoma. The Marine Corps, Okinawa, and Vietnam occupied his time until getting married in 1971.

His 42 years of marriage caused him to turn from his single thinking and become involved with a family. The family he got was exactly what he had asked the Lord for and came as a package ready to be enjoyed.

Years of training was necessary to teach him that God’s ways were quite different from his and that he needed more training than he first thought. So much more it took many more years for him to finally receive enough vision from the Lord to be fully convenced this was his correct path the whole time.

His life on the farm growing up, and his godly grandparents proved to be foundational in his development for what was coming in the future. The example I saw in my grandparents formed him with standards that have been reflected on hos whole life.

With the school of hard knocks and the Lord woven all through his life, it brought him in his seventies to finally arrive where God wanted him. It appears his late arrival has not tainted the wine but only brought more flavor.

Now remarried, a season of remembrance and biblical principles have finally persuaded him to seek the Lord for a new adventure. And, that new adventure has been to share with others what God has taught him and to reference God’s principles in the writing of several books.