Your Gift Matters!
St. Paul’s School Fund raises funds to ensure the school’s mission is fulfilled. Your gift provides tuition assistance, technology, textbooks, and other things needed to ensure a quality education for our students.
Opportunities to participate in events that support the School Fund take place throughout the year. Check out those opportunities below. Scroll further to see ongoing opportunities for support through local and national programs. Thank you for supporting our school and our students.
“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
Spring Social
The Annual Spring Social is an evening of food, fun, and entertainment with a live and silent auction. This event supports technology for the students and staff at St. Paul's School.
Year-end Appeal
The annual appeal letter goes out each December encouraging school families, alumni, past donors, and congregation members to consider a year-end gift to the School Fund.
Fun Walk
The Annual Fun Walk correlates with Iowa’s Healthiest State Walk. The fundraising goal for this event is $5,000 annually to help provide tuition assistance, technology, and textbooks.
Pay It Forward Capital Campaign
God is good and has watched over our congregation from its beginning, filling us with 150 years of blessings. Now, as we think ahead to the next 150 years, we want to hand off our ministry, our facilities and our programs to the next generation in the best condition possible. For many reasons, we already have a great start on “Paying it Forward.”
Thanks to you and your generous support, along with the legacy gift from Wayne and Nancy Anderson, the Building on Blessings campaign was an incredible success. The mortgage on the church addition was paid off six years early, and we received over $290,000 in excess funding for that project. Those funds are in an interest-bearing account and have been reserved for capital improvements and maintenance.
These successes have allowed St. Paul’s to address our remaining major building needs with our 80-year-old Parish House and 60-year-old school building. Those needs include:
School ventilation, heating and cooling, which will improve the air quality, safety, and comfort level of the school.
Classroom modernization, which will provide renovations and classroom equipment for the school and enhance the learning environment for students and teachers.
Parish Hall floor, stage, sound and lighting, which will enhance the utilization of the Parish Hall for the school, congregation and community.
Casey’s Cash for Classrooms
Turn your Casey’s purchases into donations to St. Paul’s School Fund through Casey’s Cash for Classrooms program. Casey's Rewards guest loyalty program includes an easy, ongoing option to earn points from everyday purchases in our stores that can be directed toward a local school donation of choice. Sign up for Casey’s Rewards today.
Thrivent Choice Dollars
Generosity is important to Thrivent and its members. Thrivent Choice provides a platform for members to have a financial impact on the causes and nonprofits they care about. More than 40,000 churches and nonprofits are enrolled in the program, and it keeps growing!
Eligible members can direct their Choice Dollars to St. Paul's Lutheran School. Members become eligible for Thrivent Choice based on insurance premiums, contract values and Thrivent volunteer leadership.
Kwik Star Rewards
Designate St. Paul’s to receive a percentage of your gas and grocery purchases when you sign up for a Kwik Rewards card.
RaiseRight Scrip
St. Paul’s purchases gift cards (Scrip) at a discount and sells the cards at face value. The difference goes to the School Fund. The discount can range from 2 to 15 percent. By purchasing gas, groceries, clothes, gifts and other items with scrip, St. Paul’s friends and families contribute to the school — without spending a cent more.
On average, the School Fund brings in roughly $6,000 per year through Scrip. Our goal is to increase this number through raising awareness about the Scrip Program. The more people who use Scrip, the more money our School Fund generates!
St. Paul's keeps high demand Scrip cards on hand (i.e. Kwik Star, Walmart, Fareway, HyVee, etc.) so you are can purchase them when you need them. Scrip can be purchased using cash or check and is available in the church and school office Monday through Friday during regular business hours. It is also available at the welcome desk in the narthex on Sundays from 9:45-11 a.m.
Hy-Vee Receipts
St. Paul’s collects Hy-Vee receipts. Please drop all your Waverly HyVee receipts to the church or school office. St. Paul’s School Fund receives a percentage of the total of each receipt turned in.
Box Tops for Education
Box Top labels are now digital only. Participating brands are starting to change their packaging from a traditional Box Tops clip to the new Box Top label. If you are a smart phone user please download the Box Tops app. This allows you to simply scan your receipt and get St. Paul's Lutheran School money directly. No need to clip coupons anymore!