PRAISES  

• It feels good to get back to a normal routine after holidays, snow days, and funerals.
• We have had good CiViL Groups this week.
• A friend’s dog survived it’s own poor eating choices.
• We got a request for more information from the HCA Grant.
• Several friends who had COVID-19 have recovered.
• The Omicron surge in the USA seems to have peaked. 
• A friend is a finalist in the Songwriter University song contest.
• Bellevue Presbyterian Church, one of Touchstone’s partner organizations, is growing. 

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services    

• Preparations for the CiViL Liberties Chattanooga Trip on February 19
• CiViL Service Show Our Love project this month
  
• Favor for an HCA Grant and several other unnamed fundraising initiatives
• Staffing, students & supplies for CiViL school-based programs
• Touchstone counseling clients
• Protection for Melony as counseling is effective.
• CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns

Comfort and Healing

• The family of Rosedelia Rios who passed last week.
• Melony & family at the passing of her mother Shirley Pugh 
• A friend who is very sick with diabetes related illness.
• Melony’s brother’s hearing loss
• The family of Jim’s niece whose father-in-law died of COVID.
• Several more friends and family members who have been diagnosed with COVID. 
• A friend is recovering from three strokes and has been moved to nursing care. 
• A friend has terminal cancer
• A friend is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer
• A friend is at the end stages of lung cancer. Pray for her loved ones and caretakers.
• Friends grieving broken families and lost loved ones
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends working on addiction recovery

Other 

• Juvenile detention kids are very lost, but they are responding to their Youth For Christ visitors. Pray for more positive responses. 
• Typhoon survivors in Mozambique have a new storm coming soon
• Survivors of recent disasters
• A friend is job hunting
• A friend needs guidance regarding a creative idea.
• Those suffering from disasters 
• Our aging families
• Guidance for friends planning a building project.
• Those with domestic violence, mental health, and other challenges
• Peace & safety for American democracy in 2022

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 

• A quick end to the holiday Omicron surge
• Wise leadership and humble citizens
• 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