TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
April 13, 2022
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.