PRAISES & THANKS       

• Show Our Love finished well this week!
• Show Our Love received generous donations & volunteer help from HCA.
• We have a potential new board member.
• CiViL school-based groups are done for the year.
• A positive response to a new service idea
• A friend’s purge-and-move is progressing.
• A friend is walking normally after an accident and multiple surgeries.
• A friend is healing after knee surgery.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services     

CiViL: 

• A partner church for each CiViL location
• Plans for LifeReady 101 in June
• Other summer programs in planning stages

Students :

• Finish the academic year strong
• With mental and emotional issues
• With anxiety about school safety

Counseling:

• Touchstone counseling client whose father passed away recently

Staff, Volunteers, & Interns:

• Touchstone staffing needs – building a team
• Protection for Touchstone staff, vols & interns 

Other:

• Preditors & HCA grant, along with other revenues
• Plans for LifeReady 101 in June
• Touchstone legacy plans

 Comfort and Healing 

Grief:  Families and friends of 

• Family & friends of Lauren Kemp who passed this week
• Family & friends of John H’s brother in law
• Family lost in helicopter accident in NYC
• All families dealing with loss

Illness & injury: 

• A friend recovering from a heart attack & surgery on Monday.
• A friend recovering from a stroke this week
• A friend having surgery on 4/11
• A friend recovering from surgery on a torn Achilles tendon
• Multiple friends battling cancer
• A friend with congestive heart issues
• A friend’s gums and bones
• A friend fighting sickle cell anemia
• Several friends recovering from surgery

Struggle:  

• Several friends who need work
• Friends struggling with addiction, anxiety, and past trauma

Other-Individuals

• A friend needs protection from a stalker
• Funding for a friend’s independent movie.
• A new well for a village in Malawi 
• Expensive medication cost for a friend
• A friend’s building & moving plans 
• People we love come to Jesus
• The ministry of Youth For Christ in the Juvenile Justice System 

Partner Organizations

Churches:

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Mt Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
• Woodmont Hills Church of Christ

Ministries:

• Mission Discovery
• Rocketown
• Youth for Christ 

• Inspiritus 
• Juvenile Justice Detention Facility
• World Vision

Higher Education – Interns:

• Belmont University
• Lipscomb University

Funders:

• Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
• Fairgrounds Stor-N-Lok
• HCA Healthcare Foundation
• Just Love Coffee
• US Health Advisors – Montague Region
• The Predators Foundation

Metro Nashville Public Schools:

• Hillsboro High
• James Lawson High
• Nashville School of the Arts
• John Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Stratford – Not active there, yet!

Ministry Consultants:

• Missions Development International
• Mission Increase Foundation

Current Issues

Government:

• The president , courts, governor, mayor & local, state & national policymakers,

Justice for:

• All people, regardless of race, religion, etc.
• Organizations that have allowed abuse

Protection from/for:

• Persecution & War (Ukraine, Middle East)
• Domestic violence & abuse
• First responders
• Constitutional crisis concerns
• Immigrants
• Economic instability and recession 

Social/Cultural:

• The temptation to hate our perceived enemies
• Depression, violence & suicide 
• Those with mental health & disabilities
• America’s mass shooting epidemic 

• Tornado & flood survivors in the Southeast