PRAISES 

• Last week’s movie event was so much fun!
• We had a great time on our CiViL Service Caroling Project!
• Touchstone received several large donations this week.
• Thanks that we are safe from the recent tornadoes.
• We had a really good board meeting last week.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services   

• Our students have mid-terms this week.
• Many seniors are really stressed and some giving up. 
• Jim is speaking at Rocketown Family Dinner this week
• Touchstone’s 4th Quarter fundraising drive
• Several other unnamed fundraising initiatives
• Touchstone counseling clients
• CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns

Comfort and Healing

• Melony’s mother will leave rehab soon.
• A friend has an untreatable form of cancer
• A friend has breast cancer
• A friend is at the end stages of lung cancer. Pray for her loved ones and caretakers.
• A friend with cancer is receiving hospice care.
• Several students are grieving heavily, do to loss of loved ones.
• A friend’s heart arrhythmia procedure on Jan 12
• A friend’s family in the pain of divorce.
• A friend undergoing painful physical therapy after a knee replacement 
• Friends grieving broken families and lost loved ones
• A friend is recovering from major shoulder surgery.
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends working on addiction recovery

Other

• A friend is job hunting and has an interview today.
• A friend needs guidance regarding a creative idea.
• Political tension and conflict within the American church
• The kidnapped missionaries in Haiti
• Those suffering from disasters (hurricane, floods, drought, fires, earthquakes, and war) 
• Our aging families
• Guidance for friends planning a building project.
• Those with domestic violence, mental health, and other challenges

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

• Denial vs blaming in education on history of race
• 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 

• Concerns about the Omicron variant
• Wise leadership on all protection requirements
• Protection for those w compromised immune systems
• Stamina and safety for all health care workers
• The revival that could come from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance