“Cooking for Kids” is LESA’s largest annual fundraising effort to support and sustain the future of Lutheran Christian education in the St. Louis Metro Area. Last year’s “Cooking for Kids” raised $300,000+ for need-based scholarships and educational resources such as STEM programs, professional development and curriculum guides.

This year’s event includes a live auction, scholarship fund-a-need, 50/50 drawing and special tributes to our Lutheran luminaries including LESA’s 2023 Heritage Club Honorees and the 500 Lutheran educators who have been teaching students in-school throughout the pandemic.

Tickets are $100.

Since 2004, LESA has awarded more than $7.5 million in financial assistance to families of all faiths in St. Louis and southern Illinois. To help advance that mission, the Lutheran Legacy Foundation, one of three of our endowment partners, has pledged to provide a generous match for endowment gifts and pledges made at this event. Thanks to a generous family, there is a $100,000 match for scholarship gifts.

Tickets on sale in February

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Auction Catalogue TBD

Auction Catalog

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