Doug Issichopoulos grew up in a rural town in northern Illinois and spent the majority of his youth playing high-level soccer. He attended Stanford University in California, where he majored in mathematics and discovered a love for languages. He shamelessly listens for Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Greek everywhere he goes.
It was in college when Doug came to believe that Jesus Christ truly rose from the dead, and ever since then his life has been shaped by the desire to serve the Lord. After graduating, this desire took him to work in college ministry at Stanford, inner-city ministry in San Francisco, and in partnership with Christian organizations in Mexico, Honduras, Peru, Cambodia, and East Africa.
Nevertheless, one of the things that makes Doug so unique has to do with one of the ways in which he is most common. Through high school and into college, he was deeply entrenched in pornography and masturbation, along with every peer he ever knew. But by God’s incredible grace, he was given freedom from these activities as a 19-year-old college student. Moreover, he has been free for nine years and counting, all without getting married.
Doug Issichopoulos currently resides in Palo Alto, CA. Called Higher is his first book.
