PRAISES

• The Big Payback online fundraiser was a big success!
• Their Prize Patrol liked Touchstone so much that they donated after interviewing us.
• Our awesome Lunch Table Leaders contacted so many people!
• We are looking forward to taking a short, needed break as our school-based CiViL locations wind down for the summer.
• Many of us are experiencing hope and excitement as the COVID pandemic numbers go down and vaccination numbers go up.
• Partial funding for CiViL T-shirts has been provided.
• Successes with students and clients that we can’t discuss due to confidentiality, but for which we are very grateful!

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services 

• Panera Fundraising for Touchstone – 4-8pm May 18 at Panera on White Bridge Rd. 20% of meal cost goes to Touchstone for those who use the code PRFUND at checkout. 
• Guidance for our students who are preparing for finals and making summer plans
• Guidance for the quarterly Touchstone Board meeting this Saturday, May 15.
• New Touchstone board member for late summer or fall
• CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns 
• Remaining funding needed for water bottles, T-shirts, and other CiViL swag
• Guidance for Touchstone counseling clients
• That God would bring the new students he wants at CiViL Rocketown

Comfort and Healing

• Madelyn’s friend Jennifer Drs found 3 more tumors
• Family of Maddie McClendon – teen who died of cancer
• Jim’s sister is still fighting a tenacious sinus/respiratory infection
• A friend who is undergoing chemo for colon cancer
• Two friends diagnosed with breast cancer, one starting proton therapy and one having a bilateral complete mastectomy
• Friends and TYRS clients who have lost loved ones recently
• A friend who is hospitalized with liver problems
• A friend’s sister has un-diagnosed health issues
• Friends fighting COVID-19 and after affects
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends and clients working on alcohol recovery

Other

• Guidance and peace for friend is dealing with fallout from a work-related traffic accident.
• A friend who is seeking new direction in life
• Several friends who need jobs
• Anyone with domestic violence and mental health challenges
• A friend’s homeless son in CA

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Overton High
• Oliver Middle
• Hillsboro High
• Hillwood High
• Youth For Christ – incarcerated students

Racial Justice

• A reduction in police shootings and justice in those cases
• Threats to voting rights
• Racial accountability at private schools
• 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

• Out of control pandemic surges in India and Brazil
• Improved vaccine participation
• The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
• Protection for all with compromised health.
• All of those whose livelihoods are threatened by the COVID-19 economy.
• The safety of our heroic health care workers