Sheryl Myers lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas with her husband of thirty-six years, Jack. Sheryl has been a kindergarten teacher for more than thirty years. She and Jack are the parents of three grown sons, Marcus, Matt, and Craig.

When son Craig came out to them as gay at the age of sixteen, Sheryl found herself on a journey that began as a search for understanding of their gay son. She discovered on that journey that her child had spent his young life with a secret he had been afraid to share with his family and she grieved for the "motherless child" he had been. She began to grieve for all "motherless children" everywhere, no matter their age, and her desire was to affirm them, to love them and embrace them when their own mothers couldn't or wouldn't, and to help reconnect parents with their beautiful GLBT sons and daughters.

Along the way, she heard the hate-filled messages coming from many people who called themselves Christians, yet condemned her gay son, and those like him, to hell. When she began her earnest search for God's heart and the truth of Jesus' love, He led her to Open Door Community Church and Pastor Randy McCain. She found Open Door to be an oasis of God's unconditional love and grace, a place where serving Him and loving all his children, gay and non-gay, is joy unspeakable.

Sheryl is the facilitator of Opening Doors/Unlocking Love, our support group for parents of GLBT children. Sheryl was ordained as a minister in September 2005 during our annual Fall Conference and assumed duties as Associate Pastor of Open Door Community Church.