PRAISES  

• The post-holiday Omicron variant surge infection rate seems to be dying down.
• A friend has an exciting new opportunity.
• This delightfully clear, warm (for February) weather.
• The CiViL Service segment of Scott Hamilton’s Good People has been released! View it at  https://ondemand.klove.com/live/mainstage/good_people_episode_3 (Just set up a free account.)

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services    

• Preparations for the CiViL Liberties Chattanooga Trip on February 19
• Guidance during Touchstone’s Board Meeting on February 26
• 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

• A friend who is very sick with diabetes related illness.
• Melony’s brother’s hearing loss
• A friend has terminal cancer
• A friend is at the end stages of lung cancer. Pray for her loved ones and caretakers.
• A friend is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer
• Friends grieving broken families and lost loved ones
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends working on addiction recovery

Other 

• That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel. 
• Survivors of recent disasters, including multiple typhoons in Mozambique
• A friend is job hunting
• A friend needs guidance regarding a creative idea.
• Our aging families
• Guidance for friends planning a new 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 

• 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