PRAISES   

• A friend got the job we prayed for!
• We really enjoyed Overton High’s Bobcat Theater production of Something Rotten!
• CiViL students and coaches enjoyed delivering Show Our Love Care Packs this week
• Jim’s dad turns 101 today!
• A friend is moving on with a building project.
• Two former students in car wreck last week are recovering.
• Our Brooklyn friends are safe from yesterday’s subway shooting.
• A friend has finished her chemotherapy.
• A friend got her latest COVID booster shot today.
• Praise God for Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection!

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services    

• For current and future interns, volunteers, and staff.
• A potential collaboration & sponsorship from a local business
• Recent youth crime episodes
• Touchstone is understaffed and needs several new employees.
• Touchstone will need to find new office space this summer.
• Growth for our CiViL-Rocketown group
• Touchstone counseling clients
• Protection for Melony as counseling is effective.

Comfort and Healing 

• A friend has been diagnosed with cataracts.
• A friend whose close relative is in her last days.
• A friend’s 1 year old grandson who had eye cancer surgery Monday
• A friend grieving the loss of his father 
• A friend is in a rehab facility due to a stroke.
• A couple is going though fertility treatment process, and it is emotionally and financially difficult.
• Relief for a friend suffering terrible back pain
• Several friends who have lost loved ones recently
• A friend is fighting lung cancer and pneumonia.
• Several friends undergoing cancer treatment and several friends with terminal cancer and their care givers
• People damaged by trauma
• Friends working on addiction recovery or dealing with addicted family members

Other  

• That the Gospel not be hampered by Christians
  
• Our enemies and persecutors
• Protection and provision for the people of Ukraine
• Favor for a friend in search of a new job
• Supply chain issues, gas prices, and the economy
• That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel. 
• Our aging families
• Those with domestic violence, mental health, and other challenges

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Metro Nashville Public Schools
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Nashville School of the Arts
• Youth For Christ 
• Mission Increase Foundation
• Mission Development International

Racial Justice

• Denial vs blaming in education on history of race
• Threats to voting rights
• Justice for people of color
• Repentance by oppressors and complicit bystanders
• Positive leadership
• Progress in anti-racism movement
• Social media conflict over race and other justice issues.

COVID-19 

• Protection and wise management of the COVID Omicron B.A2 subvariant.
• Protection for children and those at risk
• Wise leadership and humble citizenry
• The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.