Over 12 days in December, KML’s Student Council and National Honor Society work to collect money through student involvement to support families in need. Parents, federation members, alumni, friends, and the community are encouraged to donate as well.
In 2025 we raised money for the Beaty, Mueller, Pfundtner, and Robinson families.
Learn more about our 2025 families.
On January 14, 2026, we were privileged to have the Beaty, Mueller, Pfundtner, and Robinson families join us for our 12 Days of Christmas presentation.
Altogether, our students, faculty, friends, extended KML family, Coffeeville Company, and members of the community raised a total of $55,292 to be distributed among this year’s four 12 Days of Christmas families! THANK YOU so much for your generous, loving support! What a truly awesome gift God has worked through this program to help support these families!
Please keep the Beaty, Mueller, Pfundtner, and Robinson families in your prayers as they continue to battle their ongoing earthly challenges.
Click on the image below to watch a video of this year’s 12 Days presentation.
12 Days Families for 2025
Beaty Family
Barry and Jacqueline Beaty with their children Gretchen, Elijah, Lydia, and Ella
In August of 2025, the Beaty family unexpectedly lost their mother and wife, Jacqueline Beaty, due to health issues. Barry Beaty works for Washington County Highway Department while their four children are still living at home attending work and school. Gretchen Beaty goes to Wisconsin Lutheran College for Radiology. Elijah Beaty is working for MCR as an apprentice electrician. Lydia Beaty attends Washington County School of Esthetics, and Ella Beaty is finishing her sophomore year at Kettle Moraine Lutheran.
Mueller Family
Pastor Matt and Holly Mueller with their children Lilie (13), Matthew (12), Eli (10), Daisy (8) and Ivy (5)
This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 (EHV)
Every day this can be a Christian’s motto, no matter what is taking place. We have Jesus. We have God’s love. We have heaven coming to us. Therefore, we have continued to rejoice in the Lord every day since Holly was diagnosed in March ’25 with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in her knee/femur.
Treatment has consisted of three rounds of chemotherapy, surgery where they removed and replaced six inches of her femur bone and knee, followed by three additional rounds of chemotherapy. Each chemotherapy round consists of two outpatient days, two and a half weeks of recovery, and two back-to-back weeks of chemotherapy hospital stays. As a result of the treatment, Holly also becomes ill with a neutropenic fever hospitalizing her an additional week. Since June Holly has been in the hospital three weeks a month. We look forward to the end of January ’26 when, God-willing, she will be in remission.
Again, “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
We see God’s hand working. He is blessing the treatment. He has blessed the surgery. He blesses us with his strength. And now, he is blessing us through the 12 Days of Christmas. Thank you for your love and prayers.
Pfundtner Family
Todd & Linda Pfundtner with their children Madelyn & Katelyn
Linda Pfundtner was diagnosed with scleroderma about eleven years ago. The disease has many symptoms, including interstitial lung disease. Normally it starts out as hardening or tightening of the skin. When she was diagnosed, it had already progressed to her lungs.
Recently, we traveled on a family vacation to take our oldest daughter back to Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ. During this trip, Linda contracted an infection in her lungs that landed her in the intensive care unit in Sedona, AZ. Because of the limited resources available at the Sedona hospital, they had to send her to Cottonwood, AZ. Due to her critical condition, she then had to be taken by helicopter to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. With God by her side, she fought very hard to improve enough for us to tell her how much we loved her. Yet, after many prayers and much hope, she went home to be with the Lord.
Robinson Family
Mark and Felicia Robinson with their children Liliana and Maia
In June 2025, Mark was diagnosed with stage 3 bile duct cancer. On July 22, Mark underwent major surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, his gallbladder, and portions of several other organs and lymph nodes. Mark is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments that are expected to continue through April 2026. Since July, Mark has experienced several health setbacks that have kept him out-of-work and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Felicia is a stay-at-home mother-turned caregiver for both her own family as well as her recently widowed mother. Liliana is a freshman at Concordia University, while Maia is a freshman at Grafton High School.