TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST

April 25, 2025

PRAISES & THANKS       

  • CiViL Service In Someone Else’s Shoes went well last weekend.
  • Progress in a friend’s sorting & moving 
  • A friend may not need chemo or radiation
  • A friend battling cancer is better
  • A friend with a dislocated shoulder is feeling less pain.
  • A friend is excited about a summer trip
  • Overton students taking part in CiViL Service – Caring for Croft today

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, including school safety anxiety 

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
  • Touchstone legacy plans
 

 Comfort and Healing 

Grief:  Families and friends of 

  • All families dealing with loss

Illness & injury: 

  • Two friends with eye injuries
  • A friend recovering from a dislocated shoulder
  • Several friends recovering from stroke 
  • Several friends recovering from surgery 
  • Multiple friends battling cancer
  • A friend with congestive heart issues
  • A friend’s gums and bones
  • A friend fighting sickle cell anemia

Struggle:  

  • A student who needs a place to live
  • Several friends who need work
  • Friends struggling with addiction, anxiety, depression, suicide, and past/present trauma

 

Other-Individuals

  • A friend needs protection from a stalker
  • 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 Leaders

Justice for:

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

Protection from/for:

  • Persecution & War (Ukraine, Middle East)
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • First responders
  • Constitutional crisis concerns
  • Immigrants
  • Trade war market volatility & recession
  • All constitutional rights, freedoms & limitations

Social/Cultural:

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