Praises

• Jim and Mae had a great trip moving her back to NYC.
• Several CiViL Groups are starting this week.
• A friend with cancer has experienced miraculous improvement.
• Another friend with cancer is now stronger and more active. 
• Melony had a good meeting with a CiViL-Stratford alum.
• Good family visits for the Weber family last week

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’s mother is in the hospital.
• A friend injured his hand using a hammer.
• A friend’s is recovering from painful spinal stenosis surgery.
• For the friends and families of Lily Shaw and Derrick Graham, both of whom passed away recently.
• For our aging parents and friends.
• For several friends’ painful knee inflammation,
• A friend recovering from gall bladder surgery,
• A friend who is now in quarantine after she and her aging mother were exposed to COVID-19. 
• A friend who lost her husband, experienced stressful family conflict, battled with cancer, and needs to find a job. 
• A friend’s brother is suffering from severe depression while battling cancer, and his family is not getting information on his condition.
• 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

• A friend is struggling with both electrical and plumbing problems. 
• A friend is searching for a new job.
• Those suffering from the West Coast heat wave and fires.
• 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 elections