Seventh-graders Savannah Strasser and Marc Anthony Marquez take a break from packing meals to be shipped to Africa through Feed My Starving Children as a service project of students at St. John’s Lutheran School in La Grange. | Courtesy of Lynn Kahl

Sixth-graders Emily Nolan, Liam Murphy and Alex Fibus hold a display for the Feed My Starving Children program in Schaumburg as part of a service project of students at St. John’s Lutheran School in La Grange. | Courtesy of Lynn Kahl

St. John's Lutheran School's first-grader Maddy Nichols and her classmates pray for their neighbors.| Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

St. John's Lutheran School first-grader Dylan Bageley delivers a notice that they prayed for the homeowner in La Grange.| Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

First-grader Hayden Horton delivers a prayer notice to the doorstep of a neighbor of St. John's Lutherans School in La Grange. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

First-grader Greta Sandman of La Grange delivers a prayer notice. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Fifth-grader Christian Turner of Bellwood sprints to deliver a prayer notice to a neighbor of the school. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Fifth-grader Lacarria Woolford of Willowbrook delivers a prayer notice. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

St. John's Lutheran School first-grader Greta Sandman of La Grange gets a prayer notice to deliver. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

St. John's Lutheran School students and faculty deliver prayer notices that they prayed for their neighbor.| Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media