My name is Chris. Myers, obviously, given that this is Myers Country. I am a 20-something IT professional from Illinois, where I work at a small private university in the IT department. I spend a good portion of my time doing this (sometimes when I'm not even working...:P) In my spare time, I like to go biking around town, and out of town as well. I volunteer at my church whenever I can. And enjoy spending a lot of time with my friends when I can (although most of them live out of town now.) That does give me some nice opportunities for vacation though!

One of the most defining things about me is my relationship with Jesus Christ. Over the course of my life, it has taken a few rather interesting turns. I grew up in an awesome Christian home. I never really grew in my faith however, and like many kids who grow up in awesome Christian homes, I didn't really enjoy my faith. When I went to college, I pretty much stopped with the whole "religion" thing - sure, I talked to God when I needed help with an upcoming test, stuff like that. But I never really tried to grow, or had the desire to do so. Then when I got to my senior year, I made some not great decisions. Finally, God decided to make some serious moves in my life. Or rather, I was finally at the point in my life where I turned to God and let him make some serious moves in my life. They needed to happen; maybe I was really looking for them, but anyhow, the right time was the summer of 2003. I had met Angie a little over a year before at a Christian college student gathering called Metamorphosis and we became instant friends, but after the end of that semester, we didn't have contact for over a year. I randomly ran into her at work one day. (Randomly isn't near the right word, God knew exactly where I would be and where she should be.) We started talking a bit, and she invited me to a small get-together at the church she was a member of that Saturday for a potluck. I didn't really want to go, and tried to come up with excuses to get out of it, but God wouldn't let me, and I ended up going. I also met Eric and Danielle that night. Long story short, we became much closer friends through that summer and the past several years, and she, as well as all of my Christian friends, have helped me through a lot of really rough times in my life. Through it all, ultimately I have grown much closer to Jesus, and my life overall is extraordinarily much better than it was before. Sure, things aren't always easy, and I'm far from perfect - God still has a lot of work left to do on me, as I'm very human. But I know that when I screw up, Jesus is always there waiting for me to come back to Him. I know when times get hard, He's always standing right beside me. It still amazes me how perfectly He has worked everything out. Over the past couple of years, He has brought so many amazing people into my life; several of whom have had a profound impact on me. Through the good times and bad, all the problems and awesomeness, God has used my friends and the people around me to turn me into who I am today, and I can honestly say my life has never been fuller or better than it is today. And all of the credit goes to Jesus for being so totally awesome! It is solely by the Grace of God that I wake up each morning. By myself, I can do nothing, and I am nothing. I have no talents, no skills, no dreams, and no hope outside of Jesus. Whenever I try to do something on my own strength, I fall flat on my face. It is solely by His strength that I can exist; solely by his provision that I can do anything. All the credit for anything good in my life belongs to Him, and Him alone. Even if I had ten million lifetimes, and an infinite amount of space to type, I could never begin to describe the love of God, His Grace, or how much praise He deserves.