USHERS NEEDED!
There are four months open yet this year for ushering (July, August and December)!   Please consider this opportunity to serve.  The sign up sheet is on the wall outside the choir room.

If you have any questions, please call Tom Brown.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL DONATIONS NEEDED
Below is a listing of the items needed for VBS.  If you can donate any of these items, please sign your name on the list on the bulletin board in the narthex.  Items can be dropped off between May 10th and June 8th in the 1st and 2nd grade classroom.

Dixie cups, pretzel rods, graham crackers, Honey Nut Chex cereal, Lucky Charms cereal, M&M’s, sandwich bags, butter cream canned frosting, carrot cake mix, rice cakes, triangle cheddar crackers, raisins, Teddy Grahams, red hots candies, applesauce, lemonade mix, potato chips, dill pickles, cans of squeeze cheddar cheese, white chocolate chips, cases of bottled water, macaroni and cheese, toilet paper.

If you have any questions, please see Sharon Seegers.

BREAST CANCER WALK
Riverwalk for Breast Cancer, May 7  8am - 10:30 am  Frame Park, Waukesha.  Please join the GUMC team and help us raise money for breast cancer research.  All these money's stay in the local community, so it could be your neighbor who benefits!  Sign up online at www.waukeshariverwalk.org, or contact Mindy Imig.

LAYETTE KITS
Gethsemane will again participate in the annual Ingathering for the Wisconsin Annual Conference in June.  Your Mission Committee has chosen the project of Layette Kits which will be distributed by the Conference through UMCOR.  Gethsemane’s project will run through May 15.  The items in the Layette Kits are very basic and specific for use world wide and must be new.  Due to difficulty in finding some required items and quantity in packages, we are requesting monetary donations for the Mission Committee to do the purchasing.  The value of a Layette Kit is estimated at $35 but donations in any amount will be accepted.  Please make checks payable to Gethsemane UMC and indicate Layette Kit in the memo line.  Our goal is 25 kits!

Reasonably priced knitted baby sweaters for the kit are difficult to find.  If you or others you know like to knit, we welcome donations of simple infant sweaters that open down the front.  They must be new.  A suggested knitting pattern is available, and we need to receive the completed sweaters by May 15.  Please contact Bobbie Kuhnke if you are interested in knitting.  In lieu of knit sweaters, we will purchase infant hooded sweatshirts which are acceptable to UMCOR.

Those in the congregation who like hands on mission work can help the committee with assembling the kits after May 15.  Packaging needs to be removed, items assembled and bundled inside the receiving blankets and secured with the diaper pins.  The assembly date will be announced at a later date.

FOOD PANTRY
Most needed at the Food Pantry this month:

Ketchup, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter and jelly and detergent.  Thank you so much for your ongoing support.

When making a monetary donation, please remember to make the checks out to the Pewaukee Food Pantry.  The Food Pantry is the ministry of the Interchurch Lay Council which is represented by many churches in the community.

SAVE YOUR CLOTHING!
Just a reminder—please save your spring and summer clothing for the Food Pantry clothing giveaway in May.  There are more details in your March and April Newsletter.

VOLUNTEER FOR MAY SPRING YARD CLEAN UP
Are you looking for a one-time opportunity to help neighbors in need?  Families, youth and adult small groups are needed to rake winter debris, wash outdoor windows, clean gutters, install screens, trim bushes, and more for seniors and adults with disabilities in Waukesha County (and your community).  Choose the time and date to volunteer for a few hours in the month of May.   To volunteer, contact Kathy Whitehurst at Interfaith Senior Programs at (262) 549-3348, ext. 2407 orkathyw@interfaithwaukesha.org or visit Interfaith’s website at www.interfaithwaukesha.org.