PRAISES

• Saturday’s Your Best Shot senior photo event was a great success!
• A friend will be getting a new puppy.
• We have had some very effective counseling sessions lately.
• A friend’s email service is working again.
• A friend has a new job with some great connections.
• The relaxation of some COVID-19 restrictions

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services 

• John Overton High School students and families in the aftermath of a stabbing last week.
• The Big Payback digital fundraiser on May 6 – We are aiming for a most number of individual givers prize.
• Guidance for Touchstone counseling clients
• That God would bring the new students he wants at CiViL Rocketown
• Students who have given up on their futures during COVID
• 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

• A former student’s wife is recovering from back surgery
• The family, friends and students of beloved teacher who died two weeks ago
• A friend who is undergoing chemo for colon cancer
• Two friends diagnosed with breast cancer, one having a bilateral complete mastectomy
• Friends and TYRS clients who have lost loved ones recently
• A friend who is hospitalized with liver problems
• A friend struggling with mental health 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

• A friend who is seeking new direction in life
• Those who suffered tornado and flood damage
• Our friends who need jobs
• Anyone with domestic violence and mental health challenges
• A friend’s homeless son in CA
• 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

• A reduction in police shootings and justice in those cases
• Threats to voting rights
• 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 participation
• 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.