Home at last! Some images from Stenton Family Manor

As we conclude another incredible and life changing year at Stenton Family Manor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania we would like to share a few images from our time at the shelter.

At St. Anne's before we left for Philly - we spent Friday afternoon organizing balls

and bathing suits and towels

At Old Swedes church Brodie visited the graves of his family members

A group snapshot of all of us outside the church

Mr. Paul Gracie putting down the felt which would hopefully help keep the playground maintained

A favorite for shelter kids and our missioners the "sliding thingy"

Our friend Umar (Ooo - mar) showing off the new playground

Our new pal Eric on base in a great game of tag

Emma in search of her friends in the slide

Chris, Kami, and Grace playing Uno with Jeremey and Ishmel

Scott making sure that Mrs. McPhie really was cleaning off those picnic tables.

In less than a week we were able to manage a football sized field with only two lawn mowers and two weed whackers

Kami and Jeremy just chillin'

As you can see we did resort to sitting in the shade in 100+ weather

Juan and Scott cleaning out Ms. Stephenie's game closet

Sidewalk chalk is a big hit at the shelter

Trey and Brodie in Bright Space which is a day care for kids of the shelter who are under 5 years of age

Chris working hard at mowing

Mr. Paul decided on the last day to make a huge breakfast

In our downtime we prefer to sit back, relax and enjoy intense games of foosball

The group

Momma Hall and her babies Trey and Scott

Kami and Noelle

When the weather is so hot Scott gets the water for us all to enjoy

a dazed Trey and his buddy Jeremy

Scott and Ishmel

BASKETBALL!!!

Knockout games went on for hours and hours

Talented kids could play many sports

A freshly mowed field

Brodie and Ishmel planning an attack on the other soccer team

We would have never guessed what talented frisbee players we had at the manor

Scott and the boys trying to get some tunes working

Grace needed some artistic help making a name tag and this is what she got

Lunch was the most quiet time of the day because we stuffed our mouths

With sweltering heat we decided to cool off with some water

The crew and the staff as we say good bye and farewell until 2013