TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
September 14, 2022
PRAISES
- Our school-based CiViL Groups are starting to form and build.
- Touchstone received our Employee Tax Credit reimbursement
- A friend made it to the finals of the feature film pitching competition at The Nashville Film Festival.
- The laborious transfer from desktop to online accounting software is complete.
- A friend battling health issues is in good spirits.
- An elderly friend who had a severe case of COVID has fully recovered.
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
- Guidance regarding one of our CiViL programs
- Touchstone needs additional staff, volunteers, and protection from workload stress
- A continued smooth launch to CiViL school programs
- Favor for the Impact 100 Giving Circle grant
- We still need individual and corporate sponsors for the 2022 Tribute at Nissan Stadium
- New office space for Touchstone
- All our CiViL students
- Touchstone counseling clients
- Protection for Touchstone volunteers and staff
Comfort and Healing
- Health and safety in MNPS schools
- A friend recovering from ankle surgery
- REcovery for an injured Hillwood High School football player
- The soul of Queen Elizabeth II
- Maria Lee is battling lymphoma.
- Multiple friend are battling COVID.
- Several friends as they care for their elderly parents
- Friends recovering from or fighting heart surgery, spinal surgery, a cycling accident, past trauma, heart problems, ovarian cancer, eye cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, brain tumor, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia, arthritis
Other-Individuals
- That those we love would come to follow Jesus
- Favor for a friend in The Nashville Film Festival feature film pitching competition
- Favor and provision for a friend regarding a building plan.
- Multiple friends are seeking new jobs
- Direction for the Drumwright musical
- That students in Juvenile detention will respond positively to those who visit them to bring help, hope, and the Gospel.
- Our aging families
Partner Organizations
Churches:
- Bellevue Presbyterian Church
- The Village Chapel
Ministries:
- Mission Discovery
- Rocketown
- Youth for Christ
Higher Education – Interns:
- Belmont University
- Lipscomb University
Funders:
- Enterprise Rent-a-Car & Foundation
- HCA Healthcare Foundation
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
- Flood, fires, and droughts
- Protection from COVID-19, Polio & Monkey Pox
- Gun violence & reform
- First responders
- Mid-term elections
- Protection from politicization of the church
- Justice, repentance & change in organizations who have tolerated and harbored sexual abusers
- Justice for all involved in the January 6 insurrection
- Protection from political persecution in N Mozambique
- The predicted recession and our preparedness for it
- Our enemies and persecutors
- Protection and provision for the people of Ukraine
- Those with domestic violence, mental health, and other challenges
- Racial Justice