TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
March 15, 2023
PRAISES
- Spring Break rest & refreshing
- We took students to see the Hillsboro boys basketball team play in the state quarterfinals.
- A friend’s remodeling work is almost done
- The WKRN Remarkable Women story featuring Melony airs at 11am today.
- We have a new partnership with Just Love Cafe in Melrose
- A friend’s son found new job with the state
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
- An overwhelming workload for our staff
- A CiViL student is having to move due to hostility from a neighbor
- A CiViL student is recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident.
- A student recovering from mental health issues
- Fundraisers for Touchstone at Just Love Coffee in Melrose on the 1st Tue in April, May, June
- Planning for Your Best Shot, Touchstone’s senior photo day
- The Show Our Love CiViL Service campaign
- A partner church for each CiViL location
- Touchstone needs additional staff and volunteers
- Touchstone URGENTLY needs new office space.
- Touchstone counseling clients
- Protection for Touchstone volunteers and staff
Comfort and Healing
- Family & friends of the boys who died on a ski slope
- A friend having severe health problems
- A friend’s son after an overdose
- Friends and family of a Stratford alum who passed away recently
- A friend’s father has systolic heart failure
- Several friends undergoing or recovering from chemotherapy or radiation treatment
- Friends caring for aging parents
- Friends recovering from past trauma
- Friends fighting eye cancer, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia
Other-Individuals
- A friend’s remodeling project due to plumbing failure is almost finished
- Several friends in need of better work situations.
- That those we love would come to follow Jesus
- Favor and provision for a friend regarding a building plan.
- That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel.
Partner Organizations
Churches:
- Bellevue Presbyterian Church
- The Village Chapel
- Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Ministries:
- Mission Discovery
- Rocketown
- Youth for Christ
Higher Education – Interns:
- Belmont University
- Lipscomb University
Funders:
- Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
- HCA Healthcare Foundation
- Just Love Coffee
Metro Nashville Public Schools:
- Hillsboro High
- Hillwood High
- Nashville School of the Arts
- Overton High
- Oliver Middle
Ministry Consultants:
- Mission Development International
- Mission Increase Foundation
Current Issues
- Protection from COVID-19, Flu, RSV, gun violence, politicization of the church, disenfranchisement, persecution, military attack, domestic violence, the predicted recession, and for first responders
- Justice for those who harbor sexual abusers, all involved in the January 6 insurrection, all races, ethnicities, etc.
- Our enemies and persecutors
- Those with mental health challenge