PRAISES & THANKS      

• We had a good staff meeting for our four-week CiViL-City at Bellevue, and we have two new CiViL volunteers.

• We have received two Enterprise Holdings Foundation grants.

• Donors continue to give gently used items for the Big Blessing Benefit Sale on July 22

• A friend’s scratched cornea is healing.

• We have an exciting new opportunity for CiViL students. More to come!

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services         

   Funding:

• The Healing Trust Grant

• Impact 100 Grant relationship

• Partnership plan for Spotlight grant

• Just Love Fundraiser – TYRS coffee 

• Upcoming BEST Fundraiser

• BBB Sale donations, pick-ups & vols

• Sponsors & vols for our golf Tournament in August

CiViL: 

• CiViL Summer Session at Bellevue Presbyterian Church

• CiViL Fall schedule

• A partner church for each CiViL location

• Students with mental and emotional issues

Other:

• Touchstone counseling clients

• TYRS urgently needs new office space 

• TYRS needs various kinds of volunteers and staff.

• Protection for Touchstone staff, vols & interns

Comfort and Healing        

Friends grieving:

– The family of a student whose father was killed recently.

– A family who has lost a 2nd child to suicide

Friends with Illness:

– An injured cornea

– Undergoing chemotherapy for stage 4 cancer

– Problems with gums and bones

– Not well

– Recovering from brain surgery

– Heart, stroke, cancer

– Cancer numbers and pain are increasing

– Exhausted caretakers of a mentally ill friend

– Suffering side-effects from chemotherapy

– Fighting ovarian cancer, eye cancer, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia

Friends struggling:

– Stress from work

Caring for aging parents, recovering from past trauma

Other-Individuals  

Partner Organizations

Churches:

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church

Ministries:

• Mission Discovery
• Rocketown
• Youth for Christ 

Higher Education – Interns:

• Belmont University
• Lipscomb University

Funders:

• Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
• HCA Healthcare Foundation
• Just Love Coffee

Metro Nashville Public Schools:

• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Nashville School of the Arts
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle

Ministry Consultants:

• Mission Development International
• Mission Increase Foundation