TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
July 14, 2021
PRAISES
- One of our CiViL Coaches did an excellent job presenting at last week’s CiViL Rocketown.
- We received schedule information and plans from one of our CiViL Partner schools.
- Meg Wicks and Sonja Lowell have completed their cancer therapy regimens.
- We have several new opportunities for funding.
- We had a positive meeting with a former board member.
- Nearly 2 years after her back injury, Melony’s doctor says her back is stable.
- God used Touchstone Counseling to restore a client couple’s marriage.
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
- That students will engage in this week’s CiViL meeting.
- Preparation, item donations, and volunteers for the Big Blessing Benefit Sale on July 31
- Guidance and favor regarding several new grants
- Guidance for Touchstone Tribute planning team
- Plans for CiViL school programs in the Fall including staffing, training, and new volunteers
- A new Touchstone board member for late summer or fall
- CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns
- Remaining funding needed for water bottles, T-shirts, and other CiViL swag
- Guidance for Touchstone counseling clients
- That God would continue to bring the students he wants to participate in Summer CiViL at Rocketown
Comfort and Healing
- A friend beginning radiation treatment soon
- A friend just diagnosed with lung cancer
- Family of a friend who is receiving hospice care
- For people damaged by trauma
- Friends and clients working on alcohol recovery
Other
- Families & friends of those lost in the FL tower collapse
- A friend’s aging mother needs daily physical assistance or an assisted living facility
- Protest and violence in Eswati (Swaziland), Cuba, and Haiti
- Guidance for a friend with a new vision for ministry
- A friend needs protection from neighborhood bullies.
- A friend has grand jury duty, and it is important, but intense.
- Those with domestic violence and mental health challenges
- A friend who is working his way out of homelessness.
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
- A reduction in police shootings and justice in those cases
- 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
- State suppression of all vaccine education for teens
- Vaccines and wise leadership in countries with high COVID rates
- Protection from the Delta and Lambda variants, especially those w compromised immune systems
- Help and hope for teens who lost so much during the pandemic
- The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
- Protection for all with compromised health and those unable to receive a vaccine
- A swift comeback from the COVID-19 economy.
- The continued safety of our heroic health care workers