TRIP Program Policies | Holland Christian Schools

The TRIP program will be run weekly, except on scheduled school holidays. TRIP will run every other week during the summer.
Family or friends may help you with your tuition reduction by ordering certificates on your order form with your account number or may participate in the program by registering and receiving their own number and directing their credit to your tuition account, the tuition account of any participating family or church, or the HCS Tuition Grant Fund. Parents looking to the future and planning for the Christian Education of their children at Holland Christian Schools can also participate. These families will be assigned a tuition number and the credits earned will be held by Holland Christian Schools and credited toward their tuition when their child is enrolled in Kindergarten. You may move your credit to another Lakeshore Area Christian School once if you move out of the Holland Christian area.
All certificate orders must be accompanied by checks made payable to Holland Christian Schools--TRIP. No cash will be accepted; checks only please. These checks are not tax deductible because participants receive dollar for dollar value. Also anyone writing a non-sufficient funds check will incur a fee of $20.00 to be paid to TRIP. Please note that TRIP checks are cashed immediately so the order for the certificates can be placed the same day.
The percentage earned on each participating family's account will be held by the TRIP program and credited to your tuition account on a semi-annual basis. A statement of tuition credit will be enclosed with your order twice a year. Any discrepancies must be brought to the attention of the TRIP Coordinator within 15 days of the statement date. Each week the order envelope you receive will list the dollar amount you earned that week and the account number to which the credit will be applied.
TRIP is being offered to assist in the tuition payments for students at Holland Christian Schools. Therefore, the money collected on your account number will only be paid to Holland Christian Schools for tuition reduction. If your child(ren) no longer attend(s) Holland Christian Schools for any reason, the credits held in your account can be credited to your outstanding tuition balance, to another family's account, or to the Tuition Grant Fund.
Order Pick Up
A. Student Take Home: A Disclaimer of Responsibility form must be signed for each school year before the certificates will be released to your child. Please sign the disclaimer if you think you will ever use it. If you sign the disclaimer you will still have the option to pick up your order yourself. Your child will only receive the envelope with certificates for your family's account. If your child picks up an order for you at the High School or Middle Schools, he or she must come and get it from the volunteers during the normally scheduled drop off and pick up times listed. At the elementary schools the teachers will pass out the orders.
B. Parent Pick Up: Filled orders will be available on Wednesdays. A friend or relative may also pick up your certificates provided they sign a form available at the time of pick up.
Neither Holland Christian, nor the TRIP committee, are responsible for failure of participating businesses to fulfill contractual obligations or changing their policy without notice. It is the responsibility of TRIP participants to clarify with individual merchants such matters as individual store decisions on giving change, use of certificates, etc. prior to making a purchase at the store.
The certificates are the same as cash. Neither Holland Christian Schools nor TRIP accept responsibility for lost, stolen, damaged, or misplaced certificates.
Instant Trip--A limited amount of the most popular certificates are available on a first-come, first-serve basis for immediate purchase on Wednesday mornings. There is a separate order form for this which is available at the table where Instant TRIP is sold. Instant TRIP purchases are credited to your personal tuition account.