PRAISES

• Jim is glad to be back home after a vacation in the Smokey Mountains.
• Touchstone confirmed to provide CiViL in Nashville School for the Arts this Fall.
• A News interview w Melony & Michael Shaw this Friday
• CiViL-RT went very well last week. Good student involvement.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services 

• Plans for CiViL Summer and 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 and friends of Jason Johnston on his recent passing
• Multiple friends battling cancer 
• A friend needs a liver transplant right away
• Multiple friends are battling cancer.
• Jim’s sister is still fighting a tenacious sinus/respiratory infection
• Friends and TYRS clients who have lost loved ones recently
• 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

• A friend who starts jury duty this week
  
• 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 on 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

• Out of control pandemic surges in Brazil, Peru, India, Japan, Vietnam
• 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.
• A swift comeback from the COVID-19 economy.
• The continued safety of our heroic health care workers