• Praises
• The CiViL Shoe Drive was a success!
• We have a new partnership BPC 
• Fred Reyes going home, and his kidneys are well!
• Our champions have been joyful & excited.
• A friend is moving back to NYC soon.
• We had a good board meeting on Saturday.

Petitions

Touchstone/CiViL

• Students & Teachers – making online school work for another month
• Wisdom and favor for the state response to our CARES Act Grant application
• Preparations for the virtual Touchstone Tribute on October 20
• Neighborhood CiViL plans to begin after Labor Day
• We need several new board members.
• Need more qualified, trained male volunteers

Touchstone’s Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Hillsboro High School
• Overton High School
• Hillwood High School
• Oliver Middle School
• Enterprise
• Belmont University
• Lipscomb University
• Nashville Youth For Christ – ministry to incarcerated youth

Comfort and Healing

• For the family of David Erwin who died of COVID-19 this week.
• Melony’s dad is on the mend, but still weak.
• For a friend at the sudden loss of her daughter
• For a former student whose father just died of cancer
• For a friend with brain cancer

Racial Justice

• Justice for people of color
• Repentance by oppressors and complicit bystanders
• Positive leadership
• The anti-racism movement

COVID-19

• The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
• Protection for friends with compromised health.
• All of those whose livelihoods are threatened by the COVID-19 economy.
• The safety of our heroic health care workers.
• Wisdom & guidance for safety in going back to schools

Other

• A friend’s family to be grateful for their blessings.
• Traveling mercies for friends who are visiting family. 
• Moving and traveling mercies for a friend as she heads back to NYC on Labor Day Weekend.
• Protection and safety for residents of Louisiana & Texas as Hurricane Laura approaches.
• A friend needs expensive dental work.
• Friend who is working on alcohol addiction recovery.
• A friend wants restoration of relationship with his brother. 
• The upcoming general elections