PRAISES     

• An excellent Touchstone board meeting on Saturday
• The receipt of 2022 funding from Enterprise Foundation’s ROAD Forward initiative & application for an additional $5500 grant
• Improvement in a friend’s arthritic knees & no damage from a recent fall
• A friend had successful heart surgery
• Several friends recovering from COVID  
• A friend closed on financing their home.

 

PETITIONS

 

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services     

• New office space for Touchstone
• Favor from the Impact 100 Giving Circle Grant
• CiViL Schedule and staffing plans for upcoming school programs
• 2022 Tribute at Nissan Stadium planning & sponsors – Save the Date: Thurs. Oct. 20
• Favor from HCA corporate sponsorship for the Tribute
• Funding from the Spotlight Foundation 
• Collaboration & sponsorship from local businesses
• Possible collaboration with an organization similar to Touchstone
• All our CiViL students, including those who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns.
• Touchstone counseling clients
• Protection for Touchstone staff

 

Comfort and Healing  

• A friend preparing for cancer surgery
• Friends recovering from heart surgery, spinal surgery, and past trauma
• Friends fighting COVID, heart problems, ovarian cancer, eye cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, brain tumor, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia, arthritis
• A Couple going though fertility treatment process. 
• A friend caring for a relative in their last days.

 

Other-Individuals

•  A friend has had no A/C for 4 wks due to supply chain issues
• Multiple friends are seeking new jobs
• Direction for the Drumwright musical
• That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel. 
• Our aging families

 

Partner Organizations

Churches:

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel

Ministries:

• Mission Discovery
• Rocketown
• Youth for Christ 

Higher Education – Interns:

• Belmont University
• Lipscomb University

Funders:

• Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
• HCA Healthcare Foundation

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