PRAISES 

• 2021 Touchstone Tribute plans are progressing
• A friend is anticipating an improved job situation
• A friend’s heart passed several tests.
• A friend’s sinus surgery went fine.
• A friend with health problems is feeling better.
• The trailer is out for “Scott Hamilton’s Good People”, and CiViL students are in it!
• Our new CiViL Interns at NSA are doing a great job.

PETITIONS

Touchstone Events, Programs & Services   

•  That all our CiViL school groups get formed soon
• The Touchstone Tribute planning team and participants
• Touchstone counseling clients
• Guidance and favor for the Hays Foundation grant
• Plans and staffing for CiViL school programs 
• CiViL students who engage in unhealthy relationship patterns
• Guidance for Touchstone counseling clients

Comfort and Healing

•  Healing and peace for a friend quarantined with breakthrough COVID-19.
• Those who are grieving lost friends or loved ones
• Multiple friends battling cancer 
• For people damaged by trauma
• Friends working on addiction recovery

Other

• A better job situation for a friend
• An unspecified prayer request for a friend
• Those suffering from recent disasters (hurricane, floods, fires, earthquakes) 
• All those left behind in Afghanistan 
• Our aging families
  
• Guidance for friends planning a building project.
• Guidance for a friend with a new vision for ministry
• A friend has regular grand jury duty, and it is important, but intense.
• 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

• The backlash against Critical Race Theory and its effect on education
• 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 

• The tug-of-war between personal freedoms and safety
• Threats and violence in anti-mask and anti-vaccine protests
• Stamina and safety for all health care workers
• Wise leadership over masking and vaccine requirements
• Protection for those w compromised immune systems
• The revival that could come from our cries to God for help, hope, mercy, and repentance.
• A swift comeback from the COVID-19 economy