PRAISES 

• Jim’s dad turned 100!
• A friend’s dental work is progressing.
• Jim’s song “Old Range Cowboy” won Traditional Western Song of the Year.
• The Village Chapel youth group did a great job collecting personal toiletry items for CiViL’s Show Our Love project. 
• We had good CiViL Groups meetings with students this week.
• We are grateful for our wonderful volunteers.
• A CiViL student had successful corrective heart surgery this week.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services 

• YOUR BEST SHOT Senior Portrait event on April 24 – Need everything confirmed with students, photographers and volunteers
• Touchstone counseling clients & CiViL students
• New Touchstone board member for late summer or fall
• A CiViL student who is engaged in unhealthy relationship patterns
• Funding for CiViL water bottles, T-shirts, and other CiViL items

Comfort and Healing  

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• The family of a 3 year old killed this week by gun violence
• A friend on the death of their mother last week
• Knoxville Austin East Magnet School families after yesterday’s shooting
• The family, friends and students of beloved teacher who died last Thursday
• A friend who is undergoing chemo for colon cancer
• Two friends diagnosed with breast cancer, one having a bilateral complete mastectomy
• A friend found another hernia lump near surgical site
• A friend recovering from cataract surgery
• The family of Gaines Pugh who passed two weeks ago.
• Friends and TYRS clients who have lost loved ones recently
• The friends & families of those killed in the recent flooding here
• A friend who is hospitalized with liver problems
• A friend’s sister has un-diagnosed health issues
• Friends fighting COVID-19 and after affects
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends and clients working on alcohol recovery

Other 

• Protection for missionary friends due to rebel violence in their area of Mozambique
• Those who suffered tornado and flood damage
• A friend needs new employment in the Fall
• Travel mercies for a friend on Wednesday
• Anyone with domestic violence and mental health challenges
• A friend’s homeless son in CA
• Our friends who need jobs
• Divisive misinformation that generates social media drama.
• The flood of minors at the southern boarder.

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Youth For Christ – incarcerated students

Racial Justice

• Threats to voting rights
• Justice in the Chauvin murder trial and other racially-related deaths
• Racial accountability at private schools
• 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 

• Improved vaccine distribution
• The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
• Protection for all with compromised health.
• All of those whose livelihoods are threatened by the COVID-19 economy.
• The safety of our heroic health care workers.