Teacher Sherry Williams talks with a student during class at Mount Calvary Lutheran School, Milwaukee, in 2014. At the Nov. 20-23 meeting of the LCMS Council of Presidents, Jim Sanft, president of Concordia Plan Services, noted that “nearly two-thirds of full-time employees in the Concordia Plans are lay workers” and that “together, lay workers and Lutheran education drive the economic engine of the Concordia Plans.” (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford)