Praises

• We had an excellent Thanksgiving CiViL Service Project providing turkey dinners to the needy in partnership with  Rocketown.
• We are grateful for wonderful Thanksgiving celebrations.
• Jim got lots of recording done for a family-centered project over Thanksgiving week. 
• Melony aced the final assessment for the first half of her Social, Emotional, and Character Development Certification through Rutgars University.
• Melony’s dad is adjusting well to his new life in a nursing home.
• The CiViL Alumni Association is getting organized.
• We thank God for our board members and volunteers!

Touchstone/CiViL

• Our students who have 2 weeks left in the semester. 
• Healing and growth for Touchstone’s counseling clients
  
• Touchstone Tribute Plans watch parties
• Provision for 2020 4th Qtr finances: Touchstone still needs to raise about $60,000 during 4th Quarter to make our 2020 budget.
• Touchstone needs several new board members.

Comfort and Healing

• For the  family of Dan Hester, a student we worked with in the 1980’s. Dan and his parents have died of COVID-19.
• For Tom, Cindy, and Carol who are fighting COVID-19
• Protection for a friends mom. COVID infection rate is very high in her living facility.
• A friend with colon cancer is enduring very expensive and difficult treatment and by himself.
• Several friends are having family troubles.
• Melony’s 86 year old father as he recovers from  a fractured pelvis, spine, and ribs.
• 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 

• Unspoken request from a friend for her husband. 
• That God will provide for a friend’s homeless son, living in a tent on the West Coast, along with comfort for his family.
• A friend has a potentially contentious Home Owners’ Association meeting next week.
• That a friend’s house would sell
  
• That several friends of friends 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

• 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.