PRAISES 

• The Touchstone Board Meeting last Saturday went well.
• Melony led a really good CiViL Coach Training for Rocketown staff on Monday.
• A friend is doing well during radiation treatment
• Another friend starts radiation treatment today.
• A friend had a new baby girl.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services   

• Our CiViL graduates who are starting college
• Guidance regarding some financial decisions for Touchstone
• 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

• Several families who lost loved ones recently.
• A friend dealing with post-partum high blood pressure.
• A friend recovering from sternum surgery.
• A friend who is grieving a relationship loss
• Two friends on daily radiation treatments for cancer
• A friend undergoing chemotherapy for colon cancer
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends and clients working on alcohol recovery

Other

• Those suffering in Haiti and Afganistan
• An unspecified prayer for Leslie
• A friend who needs a change of heart
• A bipolar friend fighting a manic phase
• 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

• The backlash against Critical Race Theory and its effect on education
• 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 

• The tug-of-war between personal freedoms and safety
• Threats and violence anti-mask protests
• Stamina and safety for all health care workers
• Wise leadership over masking and vaccine requirements
• Protection for those w compromised immune systems
• The revival that could come from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
• A swift comeback from the COVID-19 economy.