Praises

• Tom has recovered sufficiently from COVID-19 to go home from the hospital!
• A warm house on cold days.
• Some CiViL boys and I will take holiday cards to the neighborhood in which we normally hav our caroling service project.
• A friend’s homeowners association meeting resolved to reasonable conclusion.
• Touchstone’s PPPL forgiveness application has been sent to the SBA. 

Touchstone/CiViL

• Our students who have 1 week 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.
• High rates of truancy and juvenile crime.
• 2021 Budget planning

Comfort and Healing

• For John and several others 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.
• 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 

• 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 coming 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.