Yesterday's Little League turnout

Man, we had a blast yesterday morning. We have been working on a Little League project for several months now and we finally seemed to catch a glimpse yesterday morning of how this thing could actually look. I wanted to share some pictures with you all here and will probably post some others on our phanfare site later.

We have been playing off an on, mostly when both Jack (the other coach, as well as missionary with his family here in Poznan) and I are available. And typically we have around 5-7 kids playing. Of course you have to understand that he normally brings about 3 of his kids and we bring our two oldest to play. So, you can see how easily it can just become the Stockdale/Shattuck Little League team! It's fun...but sort of misses the mark for the goal(s) of our project.

Yesterday, though, things seemed to take a really cool turn. I spent much of Thursday evening on the phone calling different contacts from the summer camp that Vicki was a part of, as well as calling contacts we'd made from a Genesis church "BBQ" (stretch to call it that...but that gives you a better picture). Honestly, I was pretty amazed on the phone to hear so many parents saying they were interested and that either they would be there this week or, because of going out of town for their last summer getaway, they would try to make it next week.

We showed up a little early at the park to try to get things organized. And little by little the kids, along with at least one of their parents, began trickling in. All told there were 22 kids and 11 adults. We had a blast playing with both the kids AND the parents. A few of our friends from church that were there got some great opportunities to begin building relationships with the other parents. It just went incredibly well...so much like we have been envisioning from the beginning.

Just wanted to share!