Rev. Karl Koeppen, senior pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and School in Bourbonnais, Illinois, has received the LCMS Northern Illinois District’s School Shepherd Award for 2016.
Rev. Karl Koeppen: District’s 2016 School Shepherd

Rev. Karl Koeppen, senior pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and School in Bourbonnais, Illinois, has received the LCMS Northern Illinois District’s School Shepherd Award for 2016.
St. Paul Lutheran School in Mount Prospect, Illinios, has been recognized as a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Dept. of Education. Preschoolers celebrate planting blue pinwheels in the school yard.
In September of every school year, the students and families of Our Savior Lutheran Preschool and Kindergarten in Joliet, Illinois, are invited to “Preschool Sunday.” This year was even more special.