Praises

• Our growing partnership with Rocketown 
• Good family visits for the Weber family last week
• We received a pledge for Touchstone Tribute matching funds!
• A friend is moving back to NYC soon.

Petitions

Touchstone/CiViL

• Students – frustrations with the canceled football season
• We will need additional matching funds for the Touchstone Tribute.
• Wisdom and favor for the state response to our CARES Act Grant application
• Preparations for the virtual Touchstone Tribute on October 20
• Neighborhood CiViL plans to begin after Labor Day
• We need several new board members.
• Need more qualified, trained male volunteers

Touchstone’s Partner Organizations

• Bellevue Presbyterian Church
• The Village Chapel
• Rocketown
• Hillsboro High School
• Overton High School
• Hillwood High School
• Oliver Middle School
• Enterprise
• Belmont University
• Lipscomb University
• Nashville Youth For Christ – ministry to incarcerated youth

Comfort and Healing

• A friend is having spinal stenosis surgery today.
• A friend lost his job, and then his wife died suddenly.
• A young Barefoot Republic staffer died.
• Help and comfort for residents of Louisiana & Texas after Hurricane Laura.
• Melony’s dad is on the mend, but still weak.
• For a friend at the sudden loss of her daughter
• For a former student whose father just died of cancer
• For a friend with brain cancer

Racial Justice

• Justice for people of color
• Repentance by oppressors and complicit bystanders
• Positive leadership
• The anti-racism movement

COVID-19

• The revival that comes from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
• Protection for friends with compromised health.
• All of those whose livelihoods are threatened by the COVID-19 economy.
• The safety of our heroic health care workers.
• Wisdom & guidance for safety in going back to schools

Other

• Resolution and patience for a stubborn water heater malfunction.
• Moving and traveling mercies for a friend as she heads back to NYC on Labor Day Weekend.
• A friend needs expensive dental work.
• Friend who is working on alcohol addiction recovery.
• A friend wants restoration of relationship with his brother. 
• The upcoming general elections