TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
October 6, 2023
PRAISES & THANKS
- Jim has recovered from a yellow jacket attack.
- Fall is coming! and Fall break is here!
- Two friends are recovering well from surgery.
- CiViL school groups logistics have mostly come together.
- A planning meeting for a collaborative with Belmont University is schedule for Oct 20.
- CiViL Liberties’ “See You In Court” enrichment event is on for Oct 27
- CiViL Liberties Boys Fall Hikes are scheduled for next week.
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
Funding:
- Planning for our Fall and Spring fundraisers
CiViL:
The CiViL Boys Fall Hikes scheduled for next week
Safety, rest & refreshment over Fall Break
A partner church for each CiViL location
Students with mental and emotional issues
Other:
Touchstone counseling clients
TYRS urgently needs new office space
TYRS needs various kinds of volunteers and staff.
Protection for Touchstone staff, vols & interns
Comfort and Healing
Friends grieving:
– Ted’s friends & family after his sudden passing last week
– Melinda and family after her brother’s passing
– All families dealing with loss
Illness:
– A friend battling Leukemia
– Dan recovering from surgery
– Frank – recovering from heart issues & concussion
– Friend with alcoholic husband
– Charles in chemo for stage 4 cancer
– A friend’s gums and bones that need to regenerate
– Patsy recovering from brain surgery
– A friend recovering from surgery
– Karla – starting a new clinical trial soon
– Carlene – doing better, radiation starts Mon
– Friends fighting cancer, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia
Struggle:
– Friends recovering from past trauma
– Young man getting treatment for addiction & anxiety
Other-Individuals
- A friend’s job interview results
- Building and moving plans
- Expensive medication cost
- People we love come to Jesus
- Students in juvenile detention – positive response to those who visit them to bring help, hope, & the Gospel.
Partner Organizations
Churches:
- Bellevue Presbyterian Church
- The Village Chapel
- Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Ministries:
- Mission Discovery
- Rocketown
- Youth for Christ
Higher Education – Interns:
- Belmont University
- Lipscomb University
Funders:
- Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
- HCA Healthcare Foundation
- Just Love Coffee
Metro Nashville Public Schools:
- Hillsboro High
- Hillwood High
- Nashville School of the Arts
- Overton High
- Oliver Middle
Ministry Consultants:
- Mission Development International
- Mission Increase Foundation
Current Issues
- President, Governor, Courts & Policy makers
- All people, regardless or race, religion, etc.
- Jan. 6 insurrection
- Various Trump indictments
- Organizations that have allowed abuse
- Politicization of the Church
- Persecution & War
- Domestic violence & abuse
- First responders
- Hurricane Idalia
- The Lahaina wildfire
- Hurricane Hillary
- Texas Tropical storm
- Flooding in the Midwest & Northeast
- Depression, violence & suicide in teen girls
- Those with mental health & disabilities
- America’s mass shooting epidemic
- Recession and economic instability
- We’ve had a good start-up for 2023-24 CiViL
- The Shoe Drive Service Project is done for this year.
- Jim went on his first backpack trip in 35 years
- Melony processed 3 large bags of clothes for CiViL Service
- Survivors of Hurricane Idalia & Hillary, Lahaina fire, the hurricane in Morocco, the flood in Libya,