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May 2014 Tempe, AZ

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PASTOR TROY SCHMIDT tschmidt@glctempe.com

PASTOR JERRY KOSBERG jmk61568@cox.net Phone: 480-460-2193

WORSHIP DIRECTOR: Mark Senechal msenechal@glctempe.com

PRINCIPAL, LORNA KEMPER lkemper@glstempe.com

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR: Lyn Somerville lms@glctempe.com

DIRECTOR OF YOUTH MINISTRIES: Eric Durante durante311@yahoo.com

NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Fay Wehofer fay.wehofer@srpnet.com

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 8:00, 9:30, 11:00am

CHURCH/SCHOOL OFFICE: 480-839-0906 M-Th 8-4:30; F 8-2:30

SCHOOL OFFICE: MarKetta Roemke mroemke@glstempe.com M-F 8-4:30

CHURCH WEBSITE: www.glctempe.com

SCHOOL WEBSITE: www.glstempe.com

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We ask for God’s blessings on this year’s Confirmation class:

Alexis Madison Crane Alexis Renee Davis Rachel Anne Dietz Brian Joseph Hawley Breanna Jones Addie Martin Anna Frances Morse Luke Alexander Mosiman Cassandra Joy Redl Tyron Lee Rieckmann Christian Charles Lowell Roemke Madison Renee Ronquillo

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With Easter and the beauty of the lilies just past, now we have the jacaranda trees in full bloom reminding me of lilacs in Wisconsin (how I miss them!). Poppies and other annuals in bright and colorful profusion line the medians of the streets with eye-popping gorgeousness. Beauty is found in the desert as well as in the fertile mid-west, perhaps a different kind of beauty, but God’s hand is evident in all.

Some days, we only see the dried-up blossoms of our lives. Yes, life can be difficult. Other days, we see God’s glory in all its riotous color, a rainbow of hope and glory. Shouldn’t every day be filled with the prism of God’s creation and His love for us? Why isn’t it? “Me-thinks” it is our own fault. God’s love and glory is ever blossoming, always a profusion of color and hues. It never changes. It is we who change – in our perception, our tunnel-vision, and our shortcomings as human beings. Life takes over and the blinders we wear at times prevent us

from perceiving the beauty, envisioning God’s colorful love for us. We say, “I can do this by myself, I’m fine.” No, we are not fine without God’s love and never-changing forgiveness.

We need that forgiveness and the knowledge and strength of His love every second, every minute, every hour. How can we not see the gorgeous jacaranda or the lilies or

the poppies, or not smell the sharp, yet sweet scent of a rosemary plant? And how can we live our lives with blinders on, not reveling in the brilliance of God’s love and forgiveness?

Time to take the blinders off, look around us, and, most importantly, look up. Look up into the kaleidoscope of God’s love shining down in blooming color of salvation and forgiveness – every single day, no matter what life throws at us. Look up – and be thankful for rainbows and prisms sent from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. - Bonnie J. Brockway

“Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the lasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every

kind on earth.” Genesis 9:16

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The Sunday morning adult Bible class will study Epistles in May. On May 4, Tom Kusserow will lead the class in a quick look at Paul’s letter to Philemon. May 11 and 18, Pastor Kosberg will lead a 2-week study of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. Join us for these last three sessions of this activity year. We meet in the Sanctuary from 9:15 to 10:10. Beginning on Memorial Day weekend the Sunday morning Bible class will take its summer break.

The Truth Project is a new 6-week Bible study (May 4-June 8) will meet in the GLC Café on Sundays from 10:40-noon. For more info contact Mike Mosiman (480-456-4664 or mmosiman@cox.net).

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Have you been considering ordering a brick for the Buy a Brick Program?? Now would be a great time! The first phase is completed – check out the Courtyard to see how great it looks. The next order will be placed on Friday, May 2. Get an order form at the church office. Honor a loved one, advertise your business, or mark your years as a church member, remember a graduate, or share a favorite Bible verse.

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Our Anniversary Celebration will be on Sept. 20! We are looking for stories, pictures, timelines, anything you can think of or dig up from the past 40 years at Gethsemane Church and School. Perhaps you could put in writing how you and your family came to become part of the Gethsemane family. Please send your stories and pictures to Lyn in the church office (lms@glctempe.com) or drop them off in person! We know a lot of wonderful things have happened here, please share your memories.

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We will continue to meet on Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:45 throughout May and into the summer unless most of us will be gone (keep an eye out for updates). We are studying the parables of Jesus, so each week is a different one or two. Call either the church office or Bonnie (480-821-9574) to verify if and where we are meeting. The present location is the small conference room by the office.

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Because the need is great in the summertime, there will be a Blood Drive at Gethsemane on Sunday, June 22. If you were a blood donor on March 2, the timing should be right so that you are eligible on June 22 (and will also be eligible for our next Blood Drive on October 19). Watch for more information in next month’s newsletter! If you are one of those willing folks with a question regarding specific medical conflicts, you can use this time to contact your doctor and find out if this is something you can do.

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If you didn’t know – there’s a way to donate money to GLS that’s free, to you. Just pick up a Community Partners card (from the church or school office) for Albertson’s and have them scan the card when you shop. A percentage each time will go back to our school!

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SAM will meet May 1 for lunch and Bible Study, and on May 15 we will have our spring potluck. Both of these are in the Fellowship Hall at church. Then SAM will be recessing in June, July, and August. During those months, anyone who wants to can meet for breakfast at Cracker’s on Elliott at 9am on June 5, July 10, and August 7. We will resume our fall schedule on Sept. 4.

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It’s almost time for this year’s Jr. High Summer Camp at Tonto Rim Christian Camp just outside of Payson. Cost is $170 for 4 days/3 nights (June 16-19) and 8 meals. This is open to ALL incoming 6th graders to incoming 9th graders. Register by May 12. Please contact Eric Durante (durante311@yahoo.com) for more details.

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We will celebrate Mothers on Friday, May 9 at 11am in the Fellowship Hall. Be sure to sign up on Sunday, May 4, or call Kathy Manthey (480-678-7417). We really need to know how many are attending this time. Hope to see you there!

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Our group had the privilege of taking a tour of the Choice Pregnancy Center in Tempe (note the new name!) this past month. What a blessing it was to see their new facilities and to hear how each room is used. We came away with a greater vision of what our baby quilts mean to the parents who receive them, and how lives are changed through the counseling the clients receive. God is working! We will continue to meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays (May 3 and 17) in the Fellowship Hall from 9-noon. Come and join us!

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May events:

May 1: Sports Banquet in the gym (awards and recognition for all athletes throughout the 2013-14 school year and their families)

May 6 from 5-9pm: Dining for Dollars at Venezia’s Pizzeria, located at Mill and Southern Ave in Tempe. No flyer required. Just say “Pizza Night.”

May 6: School Ministry Team Meeting

May 8: Reception for the Hawley Family at 4:30pm. The Hawleys are moving to Colorado for a work opportunity at the end of the school year. They have spent thousands of hours helping our school and church.

May 8: PTO Meeting at 6:30pm. Attendance is very important – officers will be elected for 2014-15 school year.

May 9: Pet Support Day. Our 3rd grade will visit a local pet store, purchase items to take to an animal shelter and then visit the shelter. The money comes from students doing extra chores at home, neighbors, family members, etc.

May 13: Instrumental Program (3rd -8th grades). Includes 3rd grade students playing recorders, Beginning Band, Advanced Band and Hand Bells. 6:30pm in the gym

May 14: Eighth Grade students leave for Graduation Trip to San Francisco. The class wants to thank everyone who participated in “Dining for Dollars,” and purchased Honeybaked Hams! Those efforts went a long way in helping to make their graduation trip possible.

May 15: Early Childhood Music Program (ages 2-PreK)

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May 16: Author’s Tea for Kindergarten students. They will read the books they wrote to the audience.

May 21: Eighth Grade Graduation and Awards Program at 7pm. Congratulations to our graduates:

8th Grade Graduates:

William Joshua Allison Caden Bucciarelli

Alexis Madison Crane Alijah L. Gammage

Preston Tyler Grayson Brian Joseph Hawley Addie Marie Martin

Taryn Qing Jing Tyron L Rieckmann

Christian C. L. Roemke Madison Renee Ronquillo

Slater Allen Smith Bill Zhen

May 22: School is dismissed at 11:30am. Childcare available until 6:30pm.

May 23: Campus closed for preparation of Summer Camp

May 26: Campus closed – Memorial Day

May 27: Summer Camp begins

Gethsemane Summer Adventures – May 27-Aug. 1

We still have openings for Gethsemane Summer Adventures, for ages 2-6th grade (entering 6th grade in 2014-15). Sign up for one week or all ten weeks of the camp. Each week features a unique theme with innovative activities. There is open swim with a certified lifeguard and swim lessons are offered on site. Some of the time is spent strengthening academic skills (in a fun way) so children are ready for the fall semester.

Weekly themes

Let’s Get Acquainted VBS-Weird Animals Under the Big Top It’s a Jungle Out There Animal Antics Stars and Stripes Forever Wild, Wild West All about Art Science/Math Olympics

We are enrolling for the 2014-15 School Year. Go to www.glstempe.com and/or call the school office at 480-839-0906 (ext. 3) to get more info and to schedule a tour.

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Baptisms: Ella Joyce Krup Vincent Dale Serrato

Marriages: Mark & Adele Itter

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2014 2013

Baptized Members 917 918 Confirmed Members 701 699 Family Units 421 418 Average Weekly Attendance 376 508

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5/1 Hunter Burhans Gay Hulke 5/2 Ariel Vogelsang 5/3 Kian St. Louis 5/4 Louise Grant Linda Herbert 5/5 Stephanie Hoffman Charles Sauer 5/6 Jacqui Dillon Jeremiah Lemons Jim Morse, Jr. 5/7 C.J. Evans 5/8 Jason Kann 5/9 Shannon Huerta 5/10 Gale DeBois Andrew Braun Clarence Rosenow 5/11 Jerry Turensky 5/12 Anita Haesemeyer Jasmine Hogan Susan Reitz Joshua Vogelsang 5/13 Roger Koehnlein Samantha Koehnlein 5/16 Alex Dunning 5/17 Katherine Martin Doug Plasencia 5/18 Christine Stutz 5/19 Elizabeth Dietz Mary Ann Dorsey Shane Dorsey Ryan Jones Kristy Searcy 5/20 Jonathan Kemper Nicole Kemper Emma Schuldt 5/21 Clara Morse 5/22 Alyssa Braun 5/23 Don Haden Breanna Casiano Marianne Timar Emily Woods 5/24 Stephanie Martin Mireille Carpenter

5/25 Debra Bindy Joanna Gunaraj Darrel Rosenbaum 5/26 Jianna Wacloff Chuck Winfrey 5/28 Bob Stratman David Wright 5/29 Ruben Blanco Adele Dietrich Casey Enright Dale Hawley Mary Orth Kristine Polnow Lora Mae Untiedt 5/30 Kelyn Dettlaff Matthew Lemons Steven Taradash 5/31 Charlene Cullon Addie Martin Linda Miller Scott Tremper MMAAYY AANNNNIIVVEERRSSAARRIIEESS

5/2 Luke & Jennifer Peterson 5/3 Jonathan & Susan Reitz 5/4 Robert & Michelle Davies Chuck & Reny Stratton 5/9 Charles & Carrie Phy 5/12 Matthew & Tammy Dostal 5/13 Steven & Mary Kay Schuldt 5/14 Chuck & Pam Winfrey 5/15 Randy & Mag Boase John & Stephanie Martin 5/18 Brian & Stefanie Welch 5/19 Doug & Beth Plasencia 5/20 Brian & Erfah Ellis Paul & Cheryl Rogers 5/24 Joshua & Cathy Rogers 5/25 David & Lori Kemper Chad & Sandra Somerville 5/26 Greg & MarKetta Roemke 5/27 John & Christine Taradash 5/28 Fred & Deborah Santesteban

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Cookie Miners

Cleaning up at Kiwanis Park

Karl Loechelt 3rd place AZ State Geography Bee

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8am Traditional Worship

9:15am Bible Study (→May 18)

9:30am: - Contemporary

Worship - Sunday School - Sr. Youth 10:40am Truth

Project (→June 8)

11am Blended Worship

Pastor’s day off

9am Braille Work Group

9:30am Ladies Bible Study

1pm Hanson (A/B)

6:30am Men’s Bible Study (Conf Rm)

9:40am GLS Chapel

6:30pm High School Bible Study

7:15pm Garcia/ Young Married (FLC)

6:30am Men’s Bible Study (A/B Conf Rm)

7pm Moms’ Bible Study

6:30pm Choir

1:30pm Worship Team

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 Noon SAM

GLS Sports Banquet

9am Quilters

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-9pm Dining for

Dollars (Venezia’s)

6:30pm School Ministry Team

4:30pm Hawley Reception

6:30pm GLS PTO

11am Time Out!

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Mothers’ Day 6:30pm GLS

Band Concert Noon SAM

2-PreK Music Program

Kindergarten-Author’s Tea

Armed Forces Day

9am Quilters

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Confirmation 7pm GLS 8th

Grade Graduation

11:30am GLS dismisses

GLS Campus Closed

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Memorial Day

(Offices closed) GLS Summer

Camp Begins!

8th Grade Class Trip San Francisco

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May 4 * 3rd Sunday of Easter Gospel: Luke 24:13-35

May 11 4th Sunday of Easter Gospel: John 10:1-10

May 18 * 5th Sunday of Easter Gospel: John 14:1-14

May 25 6th Sunday of Easter Gospel: Luke 24:44-53

* Holy Communion celebrated at

all services on these dates