PRAISES

• Starting this week Jim has new opportunity to serve students interested in music.
  

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services 

• That God would work through last week’s News Channel 5 Interview
  
• Plans for CiViL school programs in the Fall including staffing, training, and new volunteers
• Touchstone funding and grants
• 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 bring the new students he wants at Summer CiViL

Comfort and Healing

• The family of Jesse Huang (former CiViL student) who died from injuries sustained when his motorcycle was hit by another vehicle.
• Daniel Westbrooks (friend of TYRS who shared his story in 2020 Touchstone Tribute) & family on the death today of his brother Ryan who died from injuries sustained in a car accident.
• Healing for friend who fell and sustained a broken arm and injured knee.
• Multiple friends battling cancer 
• A friend needs a liver transplant right away
• Jim’s sister is still fighting a tenacious sinus/respiratory infection
• A friend’s sister has un-diagnosed health issues
• Friends fighting COVID-19 and after affects
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends and clients working on alcohol recovery

Other

• That a disabled friend be able to function and thrive in new program.
  
• Several friends seeking new direction in life
• Several friends who need jobs
• Anyone with domestic violence and mental health challenges
• A friend 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 – For their fundraiser today (June 16)

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

• Protection from the dangerous new Delta variant
• Help and hope for teens who lost so much during the pandemic
  
• Vaccine participation and availability worldwide
• 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