PRAISES 

• Jim had a good weekend in Knoxville helping family and celebrating his parents’ 70th Wedding Anniversary.
• Melony had a good meeting with the Hays Foundation representative.
• We found the new prospective board member we’ve been praying for!
• The first grandchild of former board members Greg & Cheryl Seneff born on Saturday morning.
• A friend’s wedding reception went very well after having been delayed from last year’s wedding due to COVID-19.
• A friend is celebrating her dad’s 88th birthday.
• A friend has been promoted to the co-presidency of a national non-proffit organization.
• A friend’s new home project continues to make progress.
• A friend is visiting her dat to celebrate his 88th birthday.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services  

• Guidance for the Touchstone board meeting on Saturday
• Protection and success for all our Nashville public school students who started school this week.
• Guidance and favor for the Hays Foundation grant
• Pray that Scott Hamilton’s “Good People” TV show (on which our CiViL students have a segment) will be picked up.
• Guidance for Touchstone Tribute planning team
• Plans for CiViL school programs in the Fall including staffing, training, and new volunteers
• CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns
• Guidance for Touchstone counseling clients

Comfort and Healing

• A friend and her family for the safe delivery of their new baby
• The families of several friends who passed away within the last week or two.
• A friend recovering from a C-section, high blood pressure, & pregnancy-induced diabetes.
• A friend having sternum surgery on Thursday.
• A friend is grieving a lost relationship.
• A friend is undergoing daily radiation treatment for cancer
• Jim’s sister Meg has lung cancer and a new infection.
• A friend recovering from COVID-19.
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends and clients working on alcohol recovery

Other

• An unspecified prayer for Leslie
• A friend who needs a change of heart
• A special needs friend and will need a need place to stay after they are released from in-patient psych treatment
• Guidance for friends planning a building project.
• A change of heart for young people bullying a special needs adult.
• Guidance for a friend with a new vision for ministry
• A friend has regular grand jury duty, and it is important, but intense.
• Those with domestic violence and mental health challenges
• A friend who is working his way out of homelessness.

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Nashville School of the Arts
• Youth For Christ 

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

•  Stamina and safety for all health care workers
• Wise leadership over masking and vaccine requirements
• Protection from the Delta and Lambda variants, especially for those w compromised immune systems
• The revival that could come from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
• Protection for all with compromised health and those unable to receive a vaccine
• A swift comeback from the COVID-19 economy.
• The continued safety, encouragement, and of our heroic health care workers.