David Cloud was born in 1949 in Lakeland, Florida, and grew up in a Christian home. He made a profession of faith as a child, but there was no evidence of biblical repentance. During high school he stopped attending church and went very far out into the world. He lived the rock & roll lifestyle, hitchhiked across America, and spent time in jail for drug abuse and public drunkenness. By 1973 he had joined a Hindu society and was practicing meditation, but God’s mercy was great toward him and that summer the prayers of his parents and his godly maternal grandmother were answered and he was converted to Jesus Christ at age 23. A year later he began his studies at Tennessee Temple Bible School. Soon after arriving there he met Linda, his wife-to-be, but six weeks later she went to Nepal to be a missionary nurse. They corresponded for a year, got engaged by mail, and she returned to the States for their wedding in August 1976. Linda grew up in a non-Christian home in Alaska and was saved as a teenager after hearing the gospel preached on television and attending a Baptist church. She was called to the mission field while attending a summer camp. The Clouds have four grown children, two of whom are missionaries. Brother Cloud wrote and printed his first book before he was one year old in Christ and founded Way of Life Literature formally in 1978. He has published more than 100 books and booklets in several languages.
David Cloud was born in 1949 in Lakeland, Florida, and grew up in a Christian home. He made a profession of faith as a child, but there was no evidence of biblical repentance. During high school he stopped attending church and went very far out into the world. He lived the rock & roll lifestyle, hitchhiked across America, and spent time in jail for drug abuse and public drunkenness. By 1973 he had joined a Hindu society and was practicing meditation, but God’s mercy was great toward him and that summer the prayers of his parents and his godly maternal grandmother were answered and he was converted to Jesus Christ at age 23. A year later he began his studies at Tennessee Temple Bible School. Soon after arriving there he met Linda, his wife-to-be, but six weeks later she went to Nepal to be a missionary nurse. They corresponded for a year, got engaged by mail, and she returned to the States for their wedding in August 1976. Linda grew up in a non-Christian home in Alaska and was saved as a teenager after hearing the gospel preached on television and attending a Baptist church. She was called to the mission field while attending a summer camp. The Clouds have four grown children, two of whom are missionaries. Brother Cloud wrote and printed his first book before he was one year old in Christ and founded Way of Life Literature formally in 1978. He has published more than 100 books and booklets in several languages.