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Donate Supplies

Do you have access to spare school or cleaning supplies? Is your church, Bible Study, or other group interested in organizing a supplies drive? Check out our wish list for some ideas of ways you can bless Grace with much needed items for our school and students. If you are interested, please contact our office to confirm how to best coordinate your plans with the school at [email protected]  

Supplies Wish List

Fundraisers

Are you connected to a business or restaurant that is willing to help Grace out with a fundraiser? If you would like to organize a Grace fundraising event, contact us at [email protected] and we will coordinate to support your event in any way we can.

Summer Work Days

While our students are enjoying their summer vacations, Grace's staff is working diligently to complete painting, landscaping, cleaning, and other building repairs before the students return in August. With no maintenance crew or full-time janitor on staff, most of this work falls on the principal and office staff, as well as the occasional parent volunteer. Work teams provide a great service to the school by volunteering a day to help us complete these much-needed projects and keep our school building safe and looking nice. If a group from your church or job would be willing to provide labor at the school during the summer, please contact us to schedule a day at [email protected] 

Thrivent

If you are a Thrivent member, Thrivent Choice Dollars are a great way to support Grace. Direct your Thrivent Choice Dollars to Grace Christian Academy/Grace Lutheran School as you earn them based upon insurance premiums, contract values, and volunteer hours. Additional information about eligibility requirements and how to designate your dollars can be found at thrivent.com under membership and benefits.

Support Our Bus

Grace Christian Academy has a long relationship with Racetrack Ministries. Racetrack Ministries helps children growing up on the Hawthorn and Arlington Racetracks with safe, quality Christian education at Grace. The families that live on the racetrack face constant economic uncertainty as work comes and goes and parents often have to travel to other tracks to stay employed. Racetrack Ministries provides a one-year full-scholarship to Grace for new students whose parents work at the racetrack. Grace absorbs the cost of transportation to ensure the children have a ride to and from the track. We currently own a small school bus that incurs costs of over $16,700 per year to run a daily morning and afternoon route for up to 25 students.
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This service is essential for our racetrack parents who work both early morning and mid-afternoon shifts at the track. We have been blessed over the years to see the growth and accomplishments of many wonderful students in this program, and we hope to continue to offer transportation services to school. If you are interested in partnering with us to support this program, donations can be made to Grace Lutheran School with a note or memo to designate your gift to the bus.

Opportunities at GCA

Cheer Coach : 2025-26 academic year

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Partnership Programs

Boxtops is changing its program!
Boxtop cutouts will be slowly eliminated but you can still support Grace by scanning your boxtop receipts on any smartphone with the Boxtops app.  Download the app, select Grace as your school of choice, and scan your receipts with boxtop purchases to continue to support Grace. 

We will continue to collect boxtops until they expire. Whether you send us your final boxtop clippings or support us by scanning your receipts in the new Boxtop apps, these points add up! Boxtops go to support programs like our Christmas and Easter events, field trips, and other activities throughout the year.

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Goodshop:
​GoodSearch raises money for Grace by generating one cent per Internet search. Participants download a tool bar, choose Grace Lutheran School, Chicago as the charity and begin earning money for our school. 

GoodSearch also partners with GoodShop and other "Good" sites such as GoodGames and GoodSurveys. These sites earn funds for Grace anytime someone purchases an item from a participating store, "clicks through" from the GoodShop site or they takes a qualifying survey or plays a sponsored game. 
All donations are automatically credited to our school and require no additional steps. Click on the GoodSearch logo below to be linked to this program:

Frequent Flyer Miles

Our 7th and 8th grade classes get to experience an extended trip each May, either to Washington, D.C. or Atlanta, Georgia. Contributions of Southwest frequent flyer miles would be a tremendous help to offset the costs of these trips. Although we may have an occasional use for miles from other airlines, we have found the convenience of taking Southwest from nearby Midway Airport and no luggage fees to work best for our class trips.