April 16, 2015
Overtime Win
The Commercial Appeal, Local News, April 15, 2015 Sports ministry's lab builds college credits after school By Jane Roberts Area high schoolers Jamarius Duncan, 15, (standing, rear) and Angela Maxwell, 17 (left) and Jasmine Baker, 16 (right) gain college credits with their work on a biology project in makeshift lab…
March 25, 2015
Michael Frazier: Give Me More!
“GIVE ME MORE” is what Mike Frazier heard every day after school from Rajah Brown, Rod Hinton and the rest of the MAM Whitehaven staff. Whether it was his basketball game, grades in school or his personal relationship with Christ, Mike was pushed to persevere in order to go from…
March 17, 2015
Big break for former addict
USA Edition No. 35, February 2015, By Rosemary Barnes Basing his whole identity around basketball was former NBA player Daryl Braden's biggest mistake Daryl Braden helps children excel in their schooling and progress spiritually at neighborhood youth centers run by Memphis Athletic Ministries (MAM). It is easy to envision former…
February 12, 2015
Tiger Football Gives Back to MAM
Chauncey Lanier removed limbs from a ravine outside the golf course. February 8, 2015, www.gotigersgo.com While Memphis Football's preseason training program began with the start of the spring semester, the Tigers took another step toward the 2015 season with its first 5:30 a.m. conditioning workout of spring on Friday. Competitive…
February 6, 2015
Rodrigo is discovering a better plan
Produced by Byron Tyler, Bott Radio Network December 2014 Rodrigo Brooks is a young man impacted by MAM’s Bethel LaBelle location. As a high school student, Rodrigo participated in a MAM small group. Now he works part-time at MAM Bethel LaBelle and is helping young men stay away from the…
February 3, 2015
MAM St. Andrew students get early start with college courses
Biology lab with MAM scholars Spring Semester 2015 MAM St. Andrew, one of MAM’s 10 centers, is partnering with Southwest Community College to provide MAM high school youth with college-level courses through its dual enrollment program. Four students from Hamilton High School, one from Central High School, and a GED…
January 28, 2015
Randy Odom named CEO of Memphis Athletic Ministries
The Memphis Daily News, January 28, 2015, The Memphis News, January 30-February 5, 2015, and The Commercial Appeal, March 29, 2015 The Memphis Daily News, NEWSMAKERS Randy Odom has been named president and chief executive officer of Memphis Athletic Ministries. Odom joined MAM in 2005 as a neighborhood center director…
January 21, 2015
New Year, New You
January 8, 2015 The Memphis Flyer staff talks about 34 ways for Memphians change our outlook on life for 2015. And one of them is getting involved in mentoring at organizations like MAM! We here at the Memphis Flyer are not know-it-alls, but that's never stopped us from giving advice.…
