She graduated from Siloam Springs High school in 2004 and then John Brown University in 2008 with a degree in Family and Human Services with an emphasis in Children and Family Ministries. One week after college graduation she married Doug Castle; the boy from Tulsa she had met at summer camp when she was just 14. Danae has worked on staff in the children's ministry at the Church at Battle Creek and has most recently been on the weekday childcare team at Redeemer Covenant Church. Doug and Danae also served as resident staff at the camp and retreat center New Life Ranch for four years before coming back to Tulsa in 2015. They have attended Asbury United Methodist Church for the past 3 years and look forward to many years of ministry at Cornerstone! Doug and Danae have three children, Henry, Jack and Adeline.