Praises 

• Several friends are doing well after recent surgeries.
• Jim is getting his 2nd COVID vaccine on Thursday.
• We have a opportunity to shoot a short video for our Big Payback presentation in May.
• Spring Break Show Our Love projects went well.
• Enterprise volunteers will be helping with this year’s Your Best Shot.

 Touchstone/CiViL

• 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
• A new Touchstone board member for late summer of early fall.

Comfort and Healing

• A friend’s bone graft needs to heal better.
• A friend’s new grandbaby is having health problems.
• A friend suffered a mild heart attack yesterday.
• A friend’s father’s health is failing.
• A friend is in the ICU w serious liver problems.
• A friend’s sister has undiagnosed health issues.
• A friend is recovering at home from a brain bleed.
• 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 – especially students who are incarcerated

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