College Savings Contest Celebrate 529 Day and Win $529! State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald and College Savings Iowa are celebrating 529 Day throughout the month of May by giving away 100 College Savings Iowa contributions! A winner in each of Iowa’s 99 counties will win a $529 contribution and one grand prize winner from all entrants […]
EWALU Adaptations are made so traditions can continue. Since 1971 St. Paul’s students have traveled to Strawberry Point to the EWALU camp. Even during Covid we are still ensuring those travels are happening. As we all know during this past year the decisions we have had to make for our families and our organizations have […]
Acts of Kindness At St. Paul’s there is always an outpouring of acts of kindness. On Thursday, April 22, I was a witness to one of these acts of kindness by Mrs. Rieckenberg and her 5th graders. Every morning for this past month I have entered the west door of the school. I’ve looked at […]
Junior Achievement We are so fortunate the Junior Achievement program brings quality volunteers from the community into our classroom to deliver proven, hands-on programming on financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship that inspires students to understand the opportunities provided by education. Our teachers report that students who participate in JA have a better understanding of […]
STO Student Tuition Assistance deadline date is April 15. Please let us know what we can do to help ensure that your family is considered for tuition assistance. Last year our students were awarded $40,009 total in scholarships. This winter we had seven generous donors that gave to Our Faith, Our Children, Our Future the […]
Easter Break Easter just feels like a good time to remind you how thankful I am for each one of you! I am so thankful to be a part of the team at St. Paul’s. I appreciate the students for their tenacity to learn, the staff for their resilience, the parents for their patience, and […]
The Power of Prayer A little story to tell… Yesterday at recess a group of kindergarten boys were playing the “Greenie” game. Part of the game is to give others super powers. One of our students explained that the super power was granted by putting two hands on the person and then the person falls […]
Lutheran Schools Week This year’s LSW theme was Hope and Joy, which is truly fitting as we bounce back from this world-wide pandemic. This week our mitigation has been somewhat of a good, bad thing. Of course the negative impact this week is that the community doesn’t get to participate in worship and parents don’t […]
Providing HOPE and JOY to Families in Need Lutheran Schools Week gives us an opportunity to celebrate everything that makes us unique and reminds us to focus on ways we can serve others. This year our theme is “Hope and Joy”. When I called and spoke with Claire about what goods we might collect, she […]
2nd Trimester Offering – We are on our way! WOW!!! This week we had over $600 in our school offering, making our grand total, $3,800. Thank you so much—if we keep that up for the next 2 weeks, we will be well on our way to our goal of building a well, $5,000!!!! The following […]
