I have to admit I thought we were sunk this week. 

You know that feeling you get when you're event starts at 12 and its 12:30 and there is only one person there. Yeah. That's the feeling I had. Only one person showed up for the training, but I did the training anyway. As I was walking through the training points I was trying to repress the mental images of the project falling flat on its face, or of my hopes of finishing my project flying away. I was wrapping up the training, and getting my stuff together to go out, (because no one canvasses alone)...

Today was the first day of our Roselawn United Canvass. After weeks of build-up, explanation and encouragement we were finally ready to go! We had a handfull of church members show up for the training.  During the training we emphasized the importance of listening while out in the neighborhood. I reminded our canvass team, "We are not going out to bring any message, we are going out to be a message..."