Doug Holliday is passionate about engaging students in an encounter with the living Christ and equipping leaders with disciple-making priorities and practices. He speaks, trains and consults for churches, ministries and organizations around the globe.

Doug is a thirty-plus year veteran of youth ministry, having served on staff in the local church as a youth pastor and teaching pastor in Illinois, New Jersey and Florida.  Doug served as the President of Sonlife Ministries  from 2013-2025. He has also served on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ  and as a Speaker and Trainer with Dare 2 Share.

• Founder, Doug Holliday Ministries
• President, Open Door Haiti

Doug’s international ministry travels have taken him to Haiti, where in partnership with Pastor Wiljean Compere he has founded Open Door Haiti and launched the School Of Youth Ministry.  He has partnered with Concentric Global and J-Life Africa to bring disciple-making training to youth leaders throughout the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and Zanzibar.  Doug has also provided coaching and encouragement for other J-Life leaders across the continent in the countries of Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Malawi and Cameroon.

He has helped develop Sonlife’s 4 Chair Discipling Seminar, Foundations Seminar,  Strategy Seminar, Leadership Multiplication Seminar and ReVerb Experience as well as eXperience Jesus (XJ) and Lead The Cause evangelism training for students and EQUIP, a Jr. High peer ministry training experience.

Doug is a graduate of Liberty University and Wheaton College Graduate School.  He and his wife Jennifer live in Lake Mary, Florida. They have six daughters: Marisa, Jaclyn, Emma, Edline, Mary-Faith and Edithe.

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