
NBA player Shaun Livingston is pictured with Jo Freudenburg (center), wife of Livingston’s childhood pastor, the late Rev. Gerald V. Freudenburg, at a 2016 fundraising event for Concordia Lutheran School in Peoria, Ill. Livingston, who graduated from Concordia in 2000 and gave $1 million to a capital campaign to expand the school, was recently recognized by Junior Achievement of Central Illinois for his continuing contributions to his hometown. Also pictured (L-R) are Livingston’s godparents, Tom and Ruth Ruppert. (Kimberly Vietti)