PRAISES  

• • Good time with family over Thanksgiving
  • The completion of Melony’s year long dental work
  • We had a good meeting with prospective CiViL students. 
  • We are thankful for our new Lipscomb University intern who started this week and a Belmont University intern who starts in Jan
  • The CiViL Service/Rocketown Thanksgiving Food Give-away deeply affected our students.
  • Touchstone’s brokerage account is set up and able to receive stock donations.
  • Our first-ever CiViL Group with hearing impaired students has transparent masksfor leaders and hearing students.
  • That group will also have an upper class intern who is interested in learning American Sign Language.
  • We reconnected with former Oliver Middle School student who wants to be in CiViL again in his new high school.
  • A friend who had shoulder surgery recently is doing very well at caring for himself. 
  • Melony’s Shingles have gotten much better. 

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services   

• Challenges forming groups at one of our schools.
• Senior students are really stressed academically, and some have given up.
• A recent grant funding request
• Touchstone 4th Qtr Fundraiser
• Touchstone counseling clients
• Plans and staffing for CiViL school programs 
• CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns

Comfort and Healing

• A friend’s heart arrhythmia procedure on Jan 12
• A friend’s family in the pain of divorce.
• A friend’s brother died in car accident
• Friends whose apartment flooded also contracted COVID. 
• A friend undergoing physical tharapy after knee replacement surgery
• A friend with cancer seems to be giving up.
• Friends grieving broken families, especially during holidays
• Several students are suffering.
• Many friends are grieving lost loved ones.
• A friend battling cancer is not doing well.
• A friend is recovering from major shoulder surgery.
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends working on addiction recovery

Other

• A friend is job hunting.
• A friend needs guidance regarding a creative idea.
• Supply chain issues and the economy
• Political tension and conflict within the American church
• The kidnapped missionaries in Haiti
• Those suffering from disasters (hurricane, floods, drought, fires, earthquakes, and war) 
• Our aging families
• Guidance for friends planning a building project.
• Those with domestic violence, mental health, and other challenges

Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• 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
• 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 

• Concerns about the new variant
• Wise leadership on masking and vaccine requirements
• Protection for those w compromised immune systems
• Stamina and safety for all health care workers
• The revival that could come from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance