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Dear Members of
St. Paul’s,
For
over 125 years, the members of St. Paul’s have supported their
school with prayers, volunteers, and monetary gifts. The
parishioners have been a blessing to many children in the past and
you continue to be a blessing to the children of the present. With
your prayers and your gifts, St. Paul’s School will continue to
teach God’s Word to those little lambs in the classroom.
Did
you know that St. Paul’s School participates in some "community
resource" programs? This article will inform you of those and how
you can help the students of your school.
The
Meijer Corporation
is the sponsor of the Meijer Community Rewards program. This is a
wonderful program! If you would like a rewards card you may apply
for one by completing an application online at Meijer.com/rewards
or call 1-800-962-7011. The number for St. Paul’s is 578632. This
number must be on your application in order for the school to
receive the monthly monetary rewards. Meijers has recently
announced changes to their program. They have extended their
re-enrollment deadline to May 31, 2007 and now customers will be
able to use debit cards, a Meijer credit card or cash for their
purchases. These types of payments will allow St. Paul’s to receive
a percentage of your purchase. We are thankful for the gifts this
that this program has helped to fund—most recently, the new sound
system at school and a portion of the bleacher renovation. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION!
We have been clipping
General Mills’s
box tops for several years. Each of the box tops is worth ten
cents. These box tops are sent in twice during the school year.
Sometimes, grocery stores will offer bonus coupons of varying
value. These are also sent in and help raise our box top total.
Thank you for cutting and clipping those labels! You may deposit
these boxtops at school or in the church basement –near the card
shop area.
The
Target Corporation sponsors a
program entitled “Target Take Charge of Education”. For each
purchase you make at the store with the Target Visa or the Target
credit card St. Paul's receives a percentage of the total of your
purchases. If you have these cards and you want to have St. Paul's
be the beneficiary, you must designate our school on the form.
Every few months our school receives a check. We thank you for
designating St. Paul's to receive a portion of your shopping!
Finally,
Thrivent Financial has a program
called Giving Plus. This would allow St. Paul’s School to receive
additional funds when you donate any amount to school to be used for
an item on the school wish list or a monetary gift to a specific
classroom. Many of you already do this, so we wanted to make you
aware of this program.
Thrivent will contribute $1.00 to every $2.00 that is contributed by
Thrivent members. When you contribute, you will be asked to
complete a Giving Plus form and then include that form with your
donation. This will insure that your monetary gift will be
supplemented.
We
appreciate all your help with these programs. The money we receive
from these different programs is put into the school gift fund.
That fund helps to cover some of the expenses we have that are not
in the budget. For example, the installation of white boards
(replacing chalk boards) in the classrooms were paid for from these
funds. The cost of various assemblies are also paid for from these
monies.
It is
a blessing for our school that our congregation members are very
supportive of Christian education. In addition to your prayers, we
are thankful for your participation in these programs.
If you
have any questions about any of these, please call the school
office.
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