Douglas Coe

Douglas Coe (1928-2017) was an American ordained ruling elder and lay minister in the Presbyterian Church USA. He was the associate director of The Fellowship (also known as family of friends in Christ, the Prayer Breakfast groups)

He was reluctant to speak in public and routinely denied requests for interviews and speeches to large audiences.

He met and worked for Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian methodist evangelist and founder of International Christian Leadership (ICI). He was fascinated by his visionary communication of a leadership led by God, empowered by his Spirit.
and became his assistant director.

Douglas was mentored by the young Billy Graham.

The Fellowship was a behind the scenes player at the Camp David Accords in 1978.
In March 2009 he was a featured speaker at the Idaho State Prayer Breakfast.
The extent of Douglas’s influence in American politics is a subject of debate.

In 2005 Douglas was named as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the USA by Time magazine.

Douglas died, aged 88, in Annapolis, Maryland on 21st February 2017 from complications of heart attack.