TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
September 22, 2023
PRAISES & THANKS
- A wonderful reunion with Stratford alums Friday
- A good meeting with Brenda Elliott
- CiViL school groups are beginning to solidify.
- We’re happy to have some new students, as well as past participants.
- A friend is recovering at home from surgery on Monday.
- Talks are progressing with Belmont University about a new collaboration.
- We have a new budding partnership at Warner Elementary.
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
Funding:
- Planning for our Fall and Spring fundraisers
CiViL:
New CiViL Groups logistics
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:
– Karen on the passing of her father
– Jim and his family will be celebrating the life of his cousin Ed on Saturday.
– Scott and family at his brother’s passing
– Randy and family at his wife’s passing
– All families dealing with loss
Illness:
– Mike 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
– Karla – cancer numbers are better, still some pain & nausea
– 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 Lybia, the tropical storm headed up the East Coast