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