PRAISES  

• Touchstone Fourth Quarter donations were the highest in the past 4 years!
• We enjoyed meeting a new student at Hillwood CiViL Group.
• Our plans for the MLK Day Let Freedom Ring Trip to Chattanooga are going well.
• A friend’s mom is moving back to assisted living on Thursday after hospital & rehab care from two “mini-strokes”.
• A very successful counseling relationship
• We will have a new intern once Belmont University starts back.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services   

•  Alignment of schedules between interns, staff, volunteers, and schools
• MLK Day Trip plans, safety, & weather
• Favor for an HCA Grant
• 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’s heart arrhythmia procedure this morning
• Many friends are being exposed to and diagnosed with COVID during the post-holiday surge. 
• A friend’s mother is recovering from “mini-strokes” and will need constant care going forward. 
• A friend has terminal cancer
• A friend is starting chemo 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

• 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