PRAISES & THANKS       

• Our CiViL Service students are making progress with “Show Our Love” & “In Someone Else’s Shoes,” and the kind folks at Bellevue Presbyterian Church donated a lot of shoes!
• Karla’s cancer numbers are better.
• Some exciting new plans for a friend’s music project 
• A friend recovering from knee surgery can finally drive again!

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services     

CiViL: 

• Your Best Shot senior portrait day will be held at The Fisher Center on March 22
• A partner church for each CiViL location
• Improved attendance for some of our groups

Students:

• With mental and emotional issues

Counseling:

• Touchstone counseling client whose father passed away recently

Staff, Volunteers, & Interns:

• Touchstone staffing needs – building a team
• Protection for Touchstone staff, vols & interns 

Other:

• Preditors & HCA grant, along with other revenues
• Plans for LifeReady 101 in June
• Touchstone legacy plans

 Comfort and Healing 

Grief:  Families and friends of 

• Family and friends of Amy’s mother who passed last week
• All families dealing with loss

Illness & injury: 

• Multiple friends battling cancer
• A friend with congestive heart issues
• A friend’s gums and bones
• A friend fighting sickle cell anemia
• Several friends recovering from surgery
• Friends and students fighting Pneumonia & the flu 

Struggle:  

• Friends who were fired in the DOGE cuts
• Several friends who need work
• Friends struggling with addiction, anxiety, and past trauma

Other-Individuals

• A friend needs protection from a stalker
• Funding for a friend’s independent movie.
• A new well for a village in Malawi 
• Expensive medication cost for a friend
• A friend’s building & moving plans 
• People we love come to Jesus
• The ministry of Youth For Christ in the Juvenile Justice System 

Partner Organizations

Churches:

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Mt Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
• Woodmont Hills Church of Christ

Ministries:

• Mission Discovery
• Rocketown
• Youth for Christ 

• Inspiritus 
• Juvenile Justice Detention Facility
• World Vision

Higher Education – Interns:

• Belmont University
• Lipscomb University

Funders:

• Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
• HCA Healthcare Foundation
• Just Love Coffee
• US Health Advisors – Montague Region
• The Predators Foundation

Metro Nashville Public Schools:

• Hillsboro High
• James Lawson High
• Nashville School of the Arts
• John Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Stratford – Not active there, yet!

Ministry Consultants:

• Missions Development International
• Mission Increase Foundation

Current Issues

Government:

• President & President-elect, courts, Governor, Mayor & local, state & national policymakers,

Justice for:

• All people, regardless of race, religion, etc.
• Trump trials & eligibility issue
• Organizations that have allowed abuse

Protection from/for:

• Persecution & War (Ukraine, Middle East)
• Domestic violence & abuse
• First responders
• Constitutional crisis concerns
• Immigrants

Social/Cultural:

• The temptation to hate our perceived enemies
• Depression, violence & suicide 
• Those with mental health & disabilities
• America’s mass shooting epidemic