PRAISES 

• 2021 is over!
• Touchstone’s Fourth Quarter fund drive is a big success!
• Plans for the CiViL Liberties Let Freedom Ring Trip on MLK Day are going well.
• We will have two new Belmont University interns this semester!

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services   

• Safety for students who go back to school next week
• 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 mother is in the hospital after a fall
• Jim Davis & Patsy Partin families on passing of their mother Susie Davis
• Several friends were recently diagnosed with COVID.
• A friend has terminal cancer
• A friend starting chemo for breast cancer
• A friend is at the end stages of lung cancer. Pray for her loved ones and caretakers.
• A friend’s heart arrhythmia procedure on Jan 12
• 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