“Connected as Leaders”
2025 Illinois State Lutheran Administrator Conference
Zion Lutheran School, 1301 N. State Street, Litchfield, IL 62056
June 9–11, 2025
Accommodations
Holiday Inn Express, 4 Thunderbird Circle, Litchfield, IL
Call the hotel at 217-324-4556 or use this link to secure your own reservations; $149.00 per night, free breakfast
Registration
Registration for the conference is $125 per person and includes:
· Dinner on Monday evening
· Lunch on Tuesday
· Snacks throughout the conference
Please submit your registration by May 21, 2025
Speaker Information
Rev. Dr. Dale Meyer
Dr. Meyer is a son of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Chicago Heights, Illinois. A 1973 graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he has served 12 years in parish ministry (St. Salvator, Venedy and St. Peter, New Memphis, Illinois, Holy Cross, Collinsville, Illinois, and various vacancies in the Southern Illinois District). For 12 years he was Speaker on The Lutheran Hour, where he also hosted a syndicated television show, “On Main Street.” He spent 22 years on the faculty of Concordia Seminary, the last 15 as president. He retired in 2020. He currently is writing the Concordia Commentary on 1 Peter, along with other writing and speaking engagements.
He lives in Collinsville, Illinois, with his wife of 51 years, Diane nee Ermler, who taught at Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights. They have two grown daughters, Elizabeth (Darren) Pittman who is a director at Concordia Publishing House and Catharine (Charles) Bailey, a Washington consultant for the State of Indiana. They have five grandsons, Christian, Connor and Nicholas Pittman, and Andrew and Jacob Bailey.
Matt Davidson
Matt Davidson is in his fifteenth year at the helm of Timothy Christian Schools (non-denominational PK3 – 12), the largest Christian school in Illinois and one of the largest in the country. During that time, Davidson and his team have raised over $70MM for capital improvements, real estate acquisitions, existing programs, and new initiatives. Additionally, during his tenure, the school has earned a National Blue Ribbon of Excellence from the US Department of Education and has increased enrollment to record numbers, capacity, and wait lists.
In his thirty-second year, Davidson has been involved in Christian education for his entire professional career. Davidson started his career in 1993 as a U.S. History and Bible teacher and a basketball and baseball coach. He assumed his first head of school position at age 36 in the largest private school in Arizona before ultimately coming to Timothy Christian Schools.
Davidson is also involved with multiple boards and committees, mostly in the nonprofit world. These include Reclaim13, the national committee for Coaches vs. Cancer, the board for the Illinois Coalition of Nonpublic Schools, and is the state representative in Washington DC for the Council for American Private Education. Additionally, he serves as the lead elder at his church; and as a board member for the Timothy Foundation.
Matt Davidson is a husband of thirty two years and a father of three children – all married. He is also a proud grandfather of five with another grandchild on the way.
Beth Jones
Beth Jones joined Concordia Plans in 2018 and feels blessed to focus exclusively on helping LCMS ministries obtain affordable products and services that ease administrative burden, save money and reduce employer risk. Beth earned a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in human resources from Concordia University, Wisconsin. In addition, she has a Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR) certification and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management with almost 20 years of human resources experience across a variety of industries, including education, health insurance and financial services. She has supported employers of all sizes – from Fortune 100 employers to small nonprofits – and for a wide range of HR disciplines, including workforce relations and planning, culture and engagement, compensation and benefits, reward and recognition, payroll, and training and development. Beth is passionate about serving non-profits.