PRAISES & THANKS     

• A friend’s building plans are progressing.
• We have some great CiViL volunteers!
• Some of our CiViL students making good decisions.
• Our students took this week’s thank-you notes lesson to heart.
• A welcome grant came this week.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services     

CiViL: 

• Plans for CiViL Service Caroling
• Show us a partner church for each CiViL location

Students:

• Students with mental and emotional issues, post-election fears, and a sense of futility
• That God reach the teens who need help.

Counseling:

• Touchstone counseling clients

Staff, Volunteers, & Interns:

• Touchstone staffing needs
• Protection for Touchstone staff, vols & interns 

Other:

• HCA Holiday Market preparations
• End-of-year fundraising
• Touchstone legacy plans
• New office space for Touchstone

 Comfort and Healing 

Grief:

• All families dealing with loss

Illness & injury: 

• A friend in the long recovery from spinal surgery
• Ross C fighting bile duct cancer
• Bill P is battling prostate cancer.
• Ann C is battling skin cancer.
• Anita has congestive heart issues
• Jim’s mom is stable, but fragile.
• Meg B is battling lung cancer.
• Karla in her ongoing battle against cancer.
• Renee’s sister getting cancer treatment
• A friend’s gums and bones
• A friend fighting sickle cell anemia
• A friend needs knee surgery and a full recovery from addiction

Struggle:  

• Several friends who need work
• Friends struggling with addiction, anxiety, and past trauma

Other-Individuals

• Protection against illness during the Thanksgiving holiday
• Provision for a friend’s first independent movie.
• Need for a new well in the Malawi village where Jim visited
• That Sebastian is found. 
• Expensive medication cost for a friend
• A friend’s building & moving plans 
• People we love come to Jesus
• Youth For Christ needs more workers for their Juvenile Justice System ministry

Partner Organizations

Churches:

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Mt Bethel Missionary Baptist Church

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, Governor, Mayor & local, state & national policymakers, courts

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
• Voters and election workers
• Immigrants

Social/Cultural:

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

Natural Disaster Survivors:

• Bomb Cyclone, drouth & fires