PRAISES   

• For our mothers and the mothers of our children
• It’s starting to feel like summer!
• Jim really enjoyed playing music at FirstLight Arts Academy on Saturday.
• The Big Payback was a success.
• The Let Freedom Ring Scholarship will be awarded this Thursday. 
• New office space possibility.
• For the impact John Cherry had on the Weber family.
• Melony selected as feature story for the September Auburn Magazine
• A friend won a local judicial election.
• Bellevue Presbyterian Church has made Touchstone an official mission of the church.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services    

• The Big Blessing Benefit Sale on June 4
• Employee Retention Credit possibilities
• Funding from the Spotlight Foundation 
• A potential collaboration & sponsorship from a local business
• Touchstone is understaffed and needs several new employees.
• Touchstone will need to find new office space this summer.
• All our CiViL students, those who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns, and those preparing for finals.
• Growth for our CiViL-Rocketown group
• Touchstone counseling clients
• Protection for Melony as counseling is effective.

Comfort and Healing 

• The friends and family of John Cherry, Luci Freed, and Big John Little after their recent passing.
• Friends recovering from spinal surgery, ovarian cyst surgery, stroke, a muscle tear from a prolonged cough, past trauma
• Friends fighting eye cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, brain tumor, severe back pain, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia, a chronically dislocated hip
• A Couple going though fertility treatment process. 
• A friend whose close relative is in her last days.

Other  

• Predicted recession and our preparedness for it
• Jim is looking for his next music gig.
• Our enemies and persecutors
• Protection and provision for the people of Ukraine
• Favor for a friend in search of a new job
• That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel. 
• 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 
• Mission Increase Foundation
• Mission Development International

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

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.