David Cloud

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David W. Cloud (1949–) is an independent, fundamental, Baptist missionary and author. He founded Way of Life Literature, a fundamental Baptist preaching and publishing ministry, in 1974. Way of Life Literature is based in Bethel Baptist Church, London, Ontario. Wilbert Unger is the Pastor of Bethel Baptist, while Cloud remains the director of Way of Life.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Post-Vietnam 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Early life

Cloud was born in 1949 in Florida, and grew up in a Christian home, graduating from high school in 1967. He made a profession of faith as a child, but there was no evidence of biblical repentance. During high school he stopped attending church.

[edit] Post-Vietnam

He got a job at a children’s psychiatric hospital in southern Florida and made plans to continue his education at a local college. Yet within a few months, this ambition was dissolved in a world of drugs. He quit his job and sold drugs for awhile, leading to his arrest and imprisonment for drug possession and public drunkenness. By then he had become intrigued by westernized Hinduism, particularly the Self-Realization Fellowship Society. While hitchhiking from California to Florida he was given a ride by some young people from India, and through their testimonies and literature became convinced that reincarnation was true. After devouring several books they had given to him, including The Autobiography of a Yogi by guru Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, he made a pilgrimage from Florida to Los Angeles, California, to visit the headquarters of that organization. After a brief stay in California, he was back in southern Florida. After working a short while as a tow motor operator in a lumber yard, he quit and decided to drive to his hometown in central Florida.

[edit] External links

• Way of Life Literature

[edit] References

David Cloud's Biography from the Way of Life Literature Website