Mike Langer in the house!!

Hey all,

I need to make this short b/c I should be studying right now. I'm going to do this Tarantino-style and start here and work backwards. I'm currently in the M.Div. program at North Park Seminary. Prior to moving downtown for seminary, I worked in the "business world" for a couple of years and, before that, teaching high school Spanish. Along the way from CBC to finishing my undergrad work, I traveled several times to Latin America and became fluent in Spanish.

It has been crazy to see how all of this has worked together to bring me to seminary. I had a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to CBC and tried to keep one foot in the church and the other in the world for a long time. God worked through that by bringing a couple of people to Christ, but I was deteriorating a bit from leaning a little too heavily on the "world" side of the fence. So, after going through a number of hard experiences, God redirected me to seminary. It's been a humbling and fruitful experience. I'm excited about how my faith has been renewed and revitalized and, most importantly, authenticated. I am sorry to say, friends, that I had become a very inward and selfish person. Now, I'm not...yeah right. But seriously, God has led me through some ugly things to really prepare me for ministry and I'm charged up and humbled at the same time. Two years ago, this would've been a rather bitter update, so I'm very grateful.

Oh yeah, so I finally gave up on the rock-star pursuit after about six years of performing. I'm still writing songs and doing some studio work here and there. My old drummer owns a music company, doing mainly childrens songbooks. He wants to eventually break into the more pop and progressive scene and would like to sign me as a song-writer. That could be sweet...but we'll see. I've got enough material now to put out two full albums, but I'm a little short on time and cash now that I'm studying like crazy.

I have a wonderful girlfriend named Melissa. She is 26 and is a nurse at the University of Chicago Hospital's medical ICU. We don't have big news to report as of yet, but it is likely that we eventually will.

Okay, so much for short. I've got a lot of reading to do. I hope everyone is well. My contact info is below and you can listen to a couple of old recordings at the myspace website.

Mike Langer
5139 North Christiana Avenue #3
Chicago, IL 60625
H: 773.649.7182 - C:630.842.3426
E: mrlanger@gmail.com
Web: www.myspace.com/michaelryanmusic