PRAISES

• We had a good board meeting last Saturday, and we are so grateful to our hard working board members!
• We are thankful for everyone who took part in the Panera Fundraiser for Touchstone on May 18!
• Our school-based CiViL Groups have wrapped up for the year.
• We look forward to Summer CiViL!
• A friend’s post-traffic accident problems are solved.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services 

• 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 Summer CiViL

Comfort and Healing

• A friend battling 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

• Traveling mercies for several friends over the coming weeks
• 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 – For their fundraiser on June 16

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.
• A swift comeback from the COVID-19 economy.
• The continued safety of our heroic health care workers