PRAISES

• A friend’s new home project is making Progress with house builder and draftsman
• The Big Blessing Benefit Sale was a success. There were no injuries. We had great volunteers, especially DuJuan, one of our students.  We made $2435 so far, and we have been told a few related donations are forthcoming.
• One of our volunteers has finally recovered from COVID-19
• A friend will be visiting her dad to celebrate his 88th birthday.
• Jim’s parents celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Tuesday.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services 

•  Pray that Scott Hamilton’s “Good People” TV show (on which our CiViL students have a segment) will be picked up.
• Guidance and favor regarding a new grant
• Guidance for Touchstone Tribute planning team
• Plans for CiViL school programs in the Fall including staffing, training, and new volunteers
• A new Touchstone board member for late summer or fall
• CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns
• Guidance for Touchstone counseling clients

Comfort and Healing

• The victims and their families from the Smile Direct Warehouse shooting
• A friend has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
• A friend’s brother is very sick.
• A friend is grieving a lost relationship.
• A friend is undergoing daily radiation treatmen for cancer
• Jim’s sister Meg has lung cancer and a new infection.
• A friend recovering from COVID-19.
• Family of a friend who is in hospice
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends and clients working on alcohol recovery

Other

• That a friend’s COVID-delayed wedding reception & honeymoon will go well. 
• An unspecified prayer for Leslie
• A friend who needs a change of heart
• A special needs friend who 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

•  Wise leadership over masking and vaccine requirements
• Protection from the Delta and Lambda variants, especially for those w compromised immune systems
• Help and hope for teens who lost so much during the pandemic
• The revival that comes 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 of our heroic health care worke