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Meet a MAM Kid
June 6, 2016

Meet a #MAMkid – Demario

Demario, 18, is a May high school graduate of Sheffield High School.  He will attend Southwest TN Community College this fall. Demario loves to play basketball.  He has been hooping at MAM Olivet since sixth grade, played on his high school basketball team and is now volunteering at MAM Olivet,…
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Community InvolvementGiving
May 24, 2016

First Tennessee choses MAM to be the inaugural recipient of its new Community Development Fund

First Tennessee presents MAM with a $20,000 check to fund our career readiness program. From left to right are Randy Odom, MAM president, Dondi Black, Senior Vice President, Community Development and Revitalization- West Tennessee, First Tennessee Bank, Kim Cherry, Executive Vice President, First Horizon Corporation, and Jonathan Torres, MAM community…
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Meet a MAM Kid
May 23, 2016

Meet a #MAMkid – Carlisha

Carlisha moved to Memphis from Marion, Arkansas this spring and is a freshman at Hamilton High School. She has been attending MAM for only two months and has found it a great place to make new friends.  She says living in the city is different,  but MAM has made the…
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Meet a MAM Kid
May 9, 2016

Meet a #MAMkid – Deja

Deja is in the 9th grade at Manasas High School, and has been attending MAM Greenlaw for the last two years.  While at MAM, she loves being around Mrs. April, playing Phase 10 and learning Bible scriptures. When describing her admiration of Mrs. April, Deja said she is “basically like…
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GivingTestimony
May 6, 2016

Sharing Christ 24/7

Meet Kasey. the high school girls mentor at MAM Hamilton.  Kasey has worked at MAM for two years after being a counselor at Kids Across America (KAA) camp (www.kidsacrossamerica.org). “As a camp counselor at KAA, I saw firsthand the positive effect that camp had on urban kids,” says Kasey. “When…
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Meet a MAM Kid
April 25, 2016

Meet a #MAMkid – Torieon

Torieon is in the 8th grade at Soulsville Charter School and has been attending MAM St. Andrew since he was in 3rd grade!  While at MAM, Torieon loves getting to help the coaches in every way he can, including helping the younger kids learn how to read.  Some of Torieon’s…
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In The News
April 21, 2016

Playing by the Golden Rule

The Commercial Appeal, March 29, 2016 By Emily Adams Keplinger, Special to the Weekly Under the umbrella of Memphis Athletic Ministries, former Memphis Tiger basketball player Detric Golden has founded a discipleship program called the A-Team. Detric Golden describes it as taking kids “from gangs to grads.” The intent is…
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Meet a MAM Kid
April 11, 2016

Meet a #MAMkid – Jeremy

Jeremy is in the 11th grade at Hamilton High School and has been attending MAM Hamilton for 4 years. Some of Jeremy’s favorite things to do at MAM are: participate in Bible study, help the younger kids understand the Bible studies and their homework, feed homeless people, and spread love…
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Partners
April 11, 2016

Shop Scholastic Book Fair to benefit MAM kids!

NOW through April 26, 2016 Germantown Presbyterian is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair to benefit Memphis Athletic Ministries and our reading program. Proceeds will allow MAM students to select a book to keep as many do not have books at home. Remaining monies will benefit MAM’s reading program to bring…
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