Doug Smith is a graduate of a four-year liberal arts Christian school with a B. A. in history, a Master of Church Music from Pensacola Theological Seminary, and is presently enrolled as a distance student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He teaches at Cornerstone Christian Academy in Abingdon, Virginia, serves as a supply preacher and teacher with the Cumberland Area Pulpit Supply, and blogs at capsministry.com. He is the husband of Krystal, and they are members of Fellowship Chapel church in Bristol, Virginia, where they reside. They have five children.