PRAISES  

• The courage and legacy of Martin Luther King
• Best possible outcome from a friend’s heart procedure last week
• A friend exposed to COVID does not have it.
• A friend who had COVID is over it without complications.
• Time with loved ones this weekend
• For God’s guidance regarding CiViL plans this week

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services    

• Safety for students and staff, since last week’s MNPS COVID infection rates were the highest of this school year
• Students who are making some poor choices.
• Guidance in rescheduling of the CiViL Liberties MLK Day Trip 
• 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

• Melony & family at the passing of her mother Shirley Pugh and as they plan her funeral
• Melony’s brother’s ringing and hearing loss
• The family of Jim’s niece whose father-in-law died of COVID.
• Several more friends and family members have been diagnosed with COVID. 
• A friend is recovering from three mini strokes and needs a nighttime care giver. 
• 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

• Safe travels for the Weber family as we travel to take part in Shirley Pugh’s memorial service.
  
• 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