Praises

• Jim made progress on a grant essay.
• Touchstone received a big, unexpected donation today. 
• We will be decorating cookies w students this week!
• We had several new students at CiViL Rocketown. 
• We are starting to work with students whose parents were in CiViL.
• CiViL Rocketown is starting middle school group.
• We are grateful for our heroic frontline medical workers
• A friend’s Christmas song is getting some radio airplay.
• A friend received guidance about the recipient of her Advent food donation.

Touchstone/CiViL

• Our students have midterms this week.
• That CiViL Rocketown will go well without Melony this week.
• Provision for a student who has moved away from home for her own safety. 
• Rest and refreshing for staff and volunteers
• Healing and growth for Touchstone’s counseling clients
• Provision for 2020 4th Qtr finances
• Touchstone needs several new board members.
• 2021 Budget planning

Comfort and Healing

• Melony is having dental surgery on Thursday morning.
• A friend was injured at work and has a concussion.
• A friend and her family will experience their first Christmas without her brother.
• Healing for Jim’s sister who has bronchitis.
• The toddler daughter of a CiViL alum has afever of 104.
• Many friends and family are fighting COVID-19.
• A friend with colon cancer is enduring very expensive and difficult treatment and by himself.
• The 11 yr old child of a CiViL alum, recovering from sexual abuse by a family friend
• Successful therapy and quality of life for a friend with brain cancer 
• Our aging parents and friends
• A friend working on alcohol recovery
• A friend who has had a year of losses

Other 

• Safety for a friend is flying to Texas for Christmas week
  
• Guidance for a friend who will be needing a new place to live.
• That God will provide for a friend’s homeless son, living in a tent on the West Coast, along with comfort for his family.
• That a friend’s house would sell
  
• That several friends of friends will come to the Lord
• Several friends who need to find work
• The emotional burden of crisis, isolation – especially during the holidays
• A peaceful and just post-election transition of power

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Youth For Christ staff has regional training this week.

Racial Justice

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

COVID-19

• Mercy for the Winter surge.
  
• 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.