TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
April 5, 2023
PRAISES
- Inspirational lives of Cindy Peak and Katherine Koonze
- The hope of the resurrection
- Good CiViL Groups this week
- A friend finished radiation treatment for cancer.
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
- Challenges with some CiViL Groups
- A CiViL student recuperating after a skating fall
- A CiViL student had to move due to hostility from a neighbor
- A CiViL student is recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident.
- A student recovering from mental health issues
- Fundraisers for Touchstone at Just Love Coffee in Melrose on the 2nd Tue in April, May, June
- Planning for Your Best Shot, Touchstone’s senior photo day
- The Show Our Love CiViL Service campaign
- A partner church for each CiViL location
- Touchstone needs additional staff and volunteers
- Touchstone URGENTLY needs new office space.
- Touchstone counseling clients
- Protection for Touchstone volunteers and staff
Comfort and Healing
- Family & friends of all who died in Covenant School
- Carlene is having chemo – some side effects
- Neil recovery from radiation treatment
- A friend having severe health problems
- A friend’s father has systolic heart failure
- Several friends undergoing or recovering from chemotherapy or radiation treatment
- Friends caring for aging parents
- Friends recovering from past trauma
- Friends fighting eye cancer, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia
Other-Individuals
- A friend is trying to put her house back together after an extensive remodeling project.
- A friend is starting a new job.
- Several friends in need of better work situations.
- That those we love would come to follow Jesus
- Favor and provision for a friend regarding a building plan.
- That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel.
Partner Organizations
Churches:
- Bellevue Presbyterian Church
- The Village Chapel
- Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Ministries:
- Mission Discovery
- Rocketown
- Youth for Christ
Higher Education – Interns:
- Belmont University
- Lipscomb University
Funders:
- Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
- HCA Healthcare Foundation
- Just Love Coffee
Metro Nashville Public Schools:
- Hillsboro High
- Hillwood High
- Nashville School of the Arts
- Overton High
- Oliver Middle
Ministry Consultants:
- Mission Development International
- Mission Increase Foundation
Current Issues
- Legislative policy makers at the local, state, and national levels
- America’s mass shooting epidemic
- Protection from COVID-19, Flu, RSV, gun violence, politicization of the church, disenfranchisement, persecution, military attack, domestic violence, the predicted recession, and for first responders
- Justice for those who harbor sexual abusers, all involved in the January 6 insurrection, all races, ethnicities, etc.
- Our enemies and persecutors
- Those with mental health challenge