Jeff Craig-Meyer

Jeff Craig-Meyer joined the Lutheran Hour Ministries staff in June 2014 and serves as the Vice President, Constituencies. Craig-Meyer has served with a number of faith-based non-profit organizations, providing leadership and management for fund development activities including annual fund support, grants, major gifts, planned gifts, charitable funds, special events, and constituent relationship management. Jeff also holds the title of President of The Lutheran Hour Ministries Foundation.

He most recently served Open Sky Education (formerly called Educational Enterprises, Inc.), a charter management organization that is rapidly expanding nationally. His primary role was establishing the development function through the creation of specific philanthropic funds to support school planting efforts in multiple regions.

Prior to joining Open Sky, he served in a number of fund development roles at the national level for The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He managed fundraising efforts on behalf of multiple target areas, including the global mission arm, where he led a team of fund development professionals in annually generating $15 million in direct gifts, as well as the regular establishment of planned gifts for the entity. He assisted in a $400 million endowment campaign for the church body's 10 universities and colleges, oversaw a mission campaign that raised $67 million, and most recently provided direction to a $45 million campaign whose funds would help in the fight to eradicate malaria in Africa.

Craig-Meyer has a degree in political science from the University of Missouri, Columbia, studied at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and received his Master of Business Administration from Saint Louis University. His extensive community involvement includes serving on a number of local boards in the St. Louis region.

He and his wife, Justine Craig-Meyer, have three sons (Mitchell, Dean, Shaun) and one daughter (Shay), and they attend Historic Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis.