PRAISES   

• CiViL students enjoyed the Hillsboro Players production of The Wizard of Oz!
• Jim had a good trip to visit Knoxville family.
• We enjoyed a good Mission Increase Foundation training seminar this week
• We said happy good-byes to our Belmont University intern.
• Melony won a copy of Robin Roberts’ new book.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services    

• Upcoming events in May and June: The Big Payback, Graduations, The Big Blessing Benefit Sale
• Employee Retention Credit possibilities
• All of our CiViL students
• 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 

• Friends struggling with Spring allergies
• A friend who is traveling to visit a widowed friend.
• A friend with an unmentioned health concern. 
• A friend whose close relative is in her last days.
• A friend’s 1 year old grandson in treatment for eye cancer
• 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  

• A friend’s home is having pest problems.
• “This world needs more of Jesus.” – a Prayer Team Member
• Several friends have an important business meeting on Wednesday 
• 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.
• A friend’s home is having pest problems.
• “This world needs more of Jesus.” – Adele Jones
• Several friends have an important business meeting on Wednesday