PRAISES & THANKS       

• The Big Blessing Benefit sale went great! 25 volunteers helped raise over $4200!
• Much progress on a friend’s building plan
• The July SEL workshop panel is filled with CiViL students and alums.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services     

CiViL: 

• A partner church for each CiViL location
• Planning for the July SEL workshop
• Plans for Your Best Shot senior portrait event scheduled for August.
• Other summer programs in planning stages
• Plans for the LifeReady 101 banquet

Students :

• A safe, restful, and productive summer
• With mental and emotional issues

Counseling:

• Touchstone counseling client with health issues

Staff, Volunteers, & Interns:

• Touchstone staffing needs – building a team for this fall
• Protection for Touchstone staff, vols & interns 

Other:

• Touchstone legacy and contingency plans

 Comfort and Healing 

Grief:  Families and friends of 

• All families dealing with loss

Illness & injury: 

• Multiple friends battling cancer
• Multiple friends recovering from surgery
• Friends recovering from other injuries or illnesses

Struggle:  

• A friend in an abusive relationship
• A student who needs a place to live
• Several friends need work
• Friends struggling with family conflict, addiction, anxiety, depression, suicide, and past/present trauma

Other-Individuals

• Investors for a  friend’s independent movie
• A new well for a village in Malawi 
• Expensive medication cost for a friend
• A friend’s building & moving plans 
• People we love come to Jesus
• The ministry of Youth For Christ in the Juvenile Justice System 

Partner Organizations

Churches:

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Mt Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
• Woodmont Hills Church of Christ

Ministries:

• Mission Discovery
• Rocketown
• Youth for Christ 

• Inspiritus 
• Juvenile Justice Detention Facility
• World Vision

Higher Education – Interns:

• Belmont University
• Lipscomb University

Funders:

• Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
• Fairgrounds Stor-N-Lok
• HCA Healthcare Foundation
• Just Love Coffee
• US Health Advisors – Montague Region
• The Predators Foundation

Metro Nashville Public Schools:

• Hillsboro High
• James Lawson High
• Nashville School of the Arts
• John Overton High
• Croft Middle
• Oliver Middle
• Stratford – Not active there, yet!

Ministry Consultants:

• Missions Development International
• Mission Increase Foundation

 Current Issues

Government Leaders and their decisions

Justice for:

• All people, regardless of race, religion, etc.
• Organizations that have allowed abuse

Protection from/for:

• Persecution & War (Ukraine, Middle East, S. Sudan)
• Domestic violence & abuse
• First responders
• Many, many non profit organizations and their constituents hurt by the Federal funding cuts.
• People targeted for deportation without due process
• Trade war market volatility & possible recession
• All constitutional rights, freedoms & limitations

Social/Cultural:

• The temptation to hate our perceived enemies
• Depression, violence & suicide 
• Those with mental health & disabilities
• America’s mass shooting epidemic