Pre-K teacher Karen Kellar helps her students paint at Holy Cross Lutheran Church and School in Collinsville, Ill., in 2014. The LCMS Blue Ribbon Committee on Lutheran Schools was created in 2013 to assist congregations “to embrace Lutheran schools as a critical ministry in congregational life and to support our schools as they serve in the 21st century” (2013 Res. 3-04). (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford)
