Koinonia Christian Campus Fellowship – UC Berkeley Club

Weary from finals studying (or perhaps still waiting to start!), our sophomores and juniors filed into BT last Thursday evening proudly carrying carefully wrapped presents.  It was our annual Christmas party gift exchange!  We started the night off with some incredible desserts, including a chocolate fondue fountain and hot apple cider!

With anticipation in the air everyone opened their randomly selected gift.  What ensued was shock and awe at both the most desirable gifts and the least.  Among the most was a LED Maglight set and among the least desirable and most absurd was a pack of beef round tip from safeway (I think it was on sale).  And, there were many gifts in between from the practical..

To the fun…

to the neither….

Then the exchanging began…but this was no ordinary gift exchange.  To prevail in this gift exchange your team had to tower build, Jenga, pig-fight, and yes even dance your way to victory!

You needed to have steady hands for some of these challenges

Koinonia’s annual pigfighting competition.  And yes, it’s merely coincidence that it was just the bros who competed..”Pig Fighting” is just an arbitrary term for this absurd game.

Impersonating John Ko, Steve & Suzanne’s TC performance

In the end, some were more victorious than others, but everybody went home with something in their hands.  We had a blast laughing together and at each other.  It was great to see everybody and spend some fun time together before the all out plunge into finals.

Last Thursday, Koinonia frosh and seniors gathered together at BT to have a Christmas gift exchange party. We first started off with some amazingly awesome food. Most of the frosh just came back from Winter fest but that didn’t matter. How can you say no to that?

Winter fest?? What winter fest??

Then we began the gift unwrapping ceremony. Needless to say some were very satisfied with their gifts and some were expected something a little different.

Anybody want this?

How about this?

There were some very nice gifts like a Jenga set, maglite set, a very soft pillow and throw set, etc. It’s amazing what you can get under $10. The gift exchanging was done by teams in which there was some very hilarious team duals that took place.

Challenge #1 Jenga: She's steadily pulling out the second block

Sad! He accidentally hit the table as he was so eager to remove a block

Challenge #2 TC dance: Can anybody (non Koinonia Fr/Sr) tell what dance it is they are doing?

Challenge #3 Line Charades: I saw the first pair act it out...and I still couldn't tell what they were doing

After all the massive exchanging, Steve ended the time with a very heart warming time of spurring on the students to remember the true meaning of Christmas. It’s so easy to get lost in all the lights, decorations or gifts of Christmas. But let’s make this Christmas a personal one, remembering that the greatest gift there is is the fact that God gave his one and only son Jesus to every one of us. Merry Christmas!