Christmas Fellowship

- Singing (and Playing) Christmas Carols -

Mark, Jonathan, and Matthew playing their instruments.

Luke and Carlin playing their guitars.

Hmmm....should I smile?

Brittany, Nicole, and Luke.

- The White Elephant Gift Exchange -

A white elephant! Who would have thought?

David likes blocks.

Kippered Herring-Heidi's favorite.

A snapping turtle's foot!?! YUCK!

Mark got what he has always wanted-a jumbo boom box.
Both tape players worked!

CHOCOLATE!!!

-The Pinata-

Impatiently waiting to see what it is.

...and waiting.

TaDa!

The onlookers were struck with wonder...

...and amazement.

David takes a swing at it.

Uhh...swung a little too low.

It is headless now.

Luke thought he could get candy out by punching it.

The aftermath.

After busting the pinata, we played Spoons.

Scott, Charity, Joel, and Mark playing Steam at 11:30 PM.

Susanna, Nicole, Matthew, Jonathan, and Brittany
playing Settlers of Catan.

Evidently Mark didn't think too highly of his gift.
It "accidently" got ran over by his Suburban.

On Christmas Night All Christians Sing...

It wasn't Christmas night, but we sang.

After we caroled, we played Apples to Apples and ate snacks.

Getting ready to go

Sisters
At Starbucks we sang

A New York taxi cab driver???



Dickens, is that you?

Christmas Fellowship

Hello Everyone,
We are planning on hosting a Christmas fellowship on Friday, December 18th at our house. You can come anytime after 5:00 PM. and we will eat around 6:00. For the meal, we thought it would be fun to just do snacky stuff. We are planning on doing a white elephant gift exchange and our totally random pinata (2007 pig, 2008 Grinch, 2009 ?!?!?!?) :-) We also wanted to sing Christmas songs sometime in the evening.

Here is a list of things you can bring.

Your favorite Christmas dish and dessert
A bag of candy for the pinata
Wrapped gifts enough for your family
(don't go to any expense just bring your junk
that you don't want anymore)
Instruments
Hymnals

Let us know if you will be able to come.
We are looking forward to seeing you all!

Love,
The Kientz's

Baptism Today!

Though it was a chilly 45 degrees ,

Nicole's baptism was still carried out today.

Romans 6:3-4

"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

Colossians 2:12
"Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead."

Galatians 2:20

"I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."