PRAISES   

• We are receiving financial donations for Show Our Love! Learn more about Show Our Love. 
• Last week’s talk to Overton Theater Dept went great!
• Your Best Shot, our effort to provide high quality photos for graduating seniors, is on track at TVC this Saturday. We’re especially excited about our photographers and Enterprise Rent-a-car volunteers.
• Friends are slowly making progress on their house project
• A friend’s home has been delivered from a troubling animal invader.
• This week a student came to CiViL and said, “I love being able to come here and get things off my chest.”
• Last week’s Tenx9 story slam has sparked a good idea for Touchstone.
• They had a great discussion in the Hillsboro extended school restorative circle that Melony leads, and it resulted in a good deed that helped another student.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services    

• For current and future interns
• We are in the final two weeks of our CiViL school programs.
• That the CiViL Service Show Our Love project will finish strong
• Growth for our CiViL-Rocketown group
• Touchstone counseling clients
• Protection for Melony as counseling is effective.

Comfort and Healing 

• A friend is in a rehab facility due to a stroke.
• A couple is going though fertility treatment process, and it is emotionally and financially difficult.
• Relief for a friend suffering terrible back pain
• Several friends who have lost loved ones recently
• Continued success with a friend’s heart monitoring
• A friend is fighting lung cancer and pneumonia.
• Several friends undergoing cancer treatment and several friends with terminal cancer and their care givers
• People damaged by trauma
• Friends working on addiction recovery or dealing with addicted family members

Other  

• Our enemies and persecutors
• Protection and provision for the people of Ukraine
• Favor for friends in search of new jobs
• Supply chain issues, gas prices, and the economy
• That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel. 
• A friend needs guidance  regarding a creative idea.
• Our aging families
• Those with domestic violence, mental health, and other challenges

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Metro Nashville Public Schools
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Nashville School of the Arts
• Youth For Christ 

Racial Justice

• Denial vs blaming in education on history of race
• Threats to voting rights
• 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 

• Protection and wise management of the COVID Omicron B.A2 subvariant.
• Protection for children and those at risk
• Wise leadership and humble citizenry
• The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.