TOUCHSTONE PRAYER LIST
September 6, 2023
PRAISES & THANKS
- 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
PETITIONS
Touchstone Events, Programs & Services
Funding:
- Planning for our Fall and Spring fundraisers
CiViL:
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:
– Scott and family at his brother’s passing.
– Randy and family at his wife Barbara’s passing.
– All families dealing with loss
Friends with Illness:
– in hospice care
– Recovering from spinal surgery
– Recuperating from a stroke
– Undergoing chemotherapy for stage 4 cancer
– Problems with gums and bones
– Recovering from brain surgery
– Heart issues & severe concussion
– Recovering from cancer treatment
– Exhausted caretakers of a mentally ill friend
– Fighting ovarian cancer, eye cancer, family or personal addiction, sickle cell anemia
Friends struggling:
– A friend entering rehab for addiction and anxiety
– Sleep loss and work-related stress
– A mother recuperating from a stroke
– Caring for aging parents, recovering from past trauma
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
- Elections
- 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, Texas tropical storm
- Those in the path of Hurricane Lee