TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
June 1, 2022
PRAISES
- The Touchstone board meeting went well.
- Lots of items have been donated for Saturday’s BBB Sale.
- SEL training at NSA is going well.
- The Big Blessing Benefit Sale is coming up on Saturday!
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
- The Big Blessing Benefit Sale on June 4
- Funding from the Spotlight Foundation
- A potential collaboration & sponsorship from a local business
- Touchstone is understaffed and needs several new employees.
- Touchstone will need to find new office space this summer.
- All our CiViL students, including those who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns.
- Growth for our CiViL-Rocketown group
- Touchstone counseling clients
- Protection for Melony as counseling is effective.
Comfort and Healing
- Shooting victims and families in Uvalde, TX
- Shooting victims and families in Buffalo, NY
- Friends recovering from spinal surgery, ovarian cyst surgery, stroke, illness-based fatigue, past trauma
- Friends fighting heart problems, eye cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, brain tumor, severe back pain, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia, a chronically dislocated hip
- A Couple going though fertility treatment process.
- Several friends caring for close relatives in their last days.
Other
- A peaceful, enriching trip for a friend iand his bi-polar, autistic son this weekend.
- Protection from political persecution in Northern Mozambique
- Justice & healing for Southern Baptist Convention abuse victims
- The baby formula shortage and its effect on families
- A friend with financial struggles
- Direction for the Drumwright musical
- Safety for friends traveling overseas
- The predicted recession and our preparedness for it
- Jim is looking for his next music gig.
- Our enemies and persecutors
- Protection and provision for the people of Ukraine
- Guidance for several friends in search of new jobs
- That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel.
- Our aging families
- Those with domestic violence, mental health, and other challenges
Partner Organizations
- Bellevue Presbyterian Church
- The Village Chapel
- Rocketown
- Enterprise Rent-a-Car
- Metro Nashville Public Schools
- Overton High
- Oliver Middle
- Hillsboro High
- Hillwood High
- Nashville School of the Arts
- Youth For Christ
- Mission Increase Foundation
- Mission Development International
Racial Justice
- Protection from racist terrorism
- Denial vs blaming in education on history of race
- Threats to voting rights
- Justice for people of color
- Repentance by oppressors and complicit bystanders
- Positive leadership
- Progress in anti-racism movement
COVID-19
- Protection and wise management of the COVID Omicron B.A2 subvariant.
- Protection for children and those at risk
- Wise leadership and humble citizenry
- The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.