Over the course of his adult years, Dan Meyer gained life experience working on an off-shore oil rig, in a prison ministry, at IBM's world corporate headquarters and on a farm. As a result, he came to understand that people, although the same in their need for God and their deep longing to be loved, are all vastly different. From this understanding sprung a vision to reach out to individuals with God's Truth wherever they are and in a style, format and language that truly speaks to them.

This vision led Dan, the son of a State Senator and nephew of a U.S. Senator and Ambassador, to pursue a life of ministry. So, following college at Yale University, Dan spent two years serving alongside the pastor and people of the Duncairn Presbyterian Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There he worked among the area's youth; started a ministry that brought together Protestant and Catholic senior adults; helped to found an ecumenical community service center (the 174 Trust); served as a part-time hospital chaplain; and played semi-pro basketball on one of the province's few Protestant-Catholic teams.

Upon returning from Northern Ireland, Dan completed a Master of Divinity degree at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was awarded the Senior Prize for Excellence in Preaching. Dan served as an Associate Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame, California, a suburb of San Francisco and as Pastor of the Village Community Presbyterian Church of Rancho Santa Fe, north of San Diego, before coming to Christ Church of Oak Brook as Senior Pastor in March 1997. During this time he was also chair of the Presbytery's Moving-In-Mission Committee and briefly on the national board of Presbyterians for Renewal.

Dan's sermons are heard weekly in Chicagoland on Independent/PAX television and on WGN and WYLL radio through the Love Changes Life program. They are also frequently featured in Christianity Today's Preaching Today resource. Dan serves on the Dean's Advisory Board of Fuller Theological Seminary's School of Inter-Cultural Studies; the Dean's Advisory Board of Midwestern University; as Chaplain of the Executives Breakfast Club of Oak Brook; and as an adjunct teaching resource for the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is currently in the final project phase of a Doctor of Ministry program at Fuller and is co-authoring a curriculum on leadership to be published by InterVarsity Press.