Praises

•  friend doing well after surgery.
• A friend is OK after car wreck.
• Touchstone welcomes our newest board member, Sarah James Myatt!
• One of this week’s Show Your Love service projects went very well.
• Several of our senior CiViL students girls to be CiViL interns when they graduate.
• We have had a positive response from several church partners about helping with the Show Our Love service project.
• One of our volunteers is taking strong leadership on Touchstone’s Fundraising Committee.
• Melony and Jim Weber look forward to seeing their grown children at Easter.
• We have set a date for Your Best Shot, our senior portrait initiative, as April 24. 
• We are encouraged as friends and family receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

 Touchstone/CiViL

• Success for our Spring break Show Our Love projects
• We need 4 more volunteer photographers for Your Best Shot.
  
• Guidance and favor after submission of a Predators Grant
• Touchstone counseling clients and CiViL students
• New Touchstone board members

Comfort and Healing

• A friend’s father in nursing home care is not swallowing. 
• A friend is in the ICU w serious liver problems.
• A friend recovering from hernia surgery.
• Young man with morbid bi-polar depression. 
• A friend’s sister Toni has a spot on her lung.
• A friend’s brain bleed that resulted from a fall.
• The loved ones of several friends who passed away recently.
• Friends and family members fighting COVID-19 and its after-effects. 
• For all who struggle with the after-effects of trauma
• Our aging parents and friends who are vulnerable and often isolated due to health and safety concerns.
• A friend working on alcohol recovery

Other 

• Anyone with domestic violence and mental health challenges.
• Recovery and a home for a friend’s homeless son.
• Several friends who need to find work
•  An end to divisive misinformation that generates social conflict.

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown 
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Youth For Christ 

Racial Justice

• Justice for people of color
• Repentance by oppressors and complicit bystanders
• Positive leadership
• Progress in anti-racism movement
• Empathy regarding racial discrimination issues, especially by those who haven’t experienced discrimination.
• Racial equity and accountability in area schools
  

COVID-19

• Wisdom about loosening COVID-19 restrictions, especially in regards to Spring Break activities and the possibility of a resulting surge.
• Speedy vaccinations for all
• Rapid and successful vaccine distribution
• The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance
• Protection for friends with compromised health.
• All of those whose livelihoods are threatened by the COVID-19 economy.
• The safety for our heroic health care and essential workers