TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
DECEMBER 16, 2020
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.