LOCAL MEMPHIS LIVE with Amy Speropoulos Golfing with Memphis Athletic Ministries MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - The Memphis Athletic Ministries park golf program offers year-round golf training to local boys and girls ages 8 to 18. The goal is to introduce the game of golf, teach life skills, and ultimately share…
August 24, 2017
Local 24 Founder’s Day of Caring: Making Connections
LOCAL GOOD NEWS with Katina Rankin Making Connections MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - Memphis Athletic Ministries focuses on making positive connections between adult mentors and the children they're trying to help. It's local good news. This is a story about love. "Our goal is to make sure we show them the…
LOCAL MEMPHIS LIVE with Amy Speropoulos The Mission of Memphis Athletic Ministries MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - Juvenile crime goes up 300% during after school hours. In the city of Memphis, the urban community is marked by a high rate of juvenile crime, high poverty rates, several single parent families, and…
August 8, 2017
Beyond the Ball, Volume 3, Issue 2
July 2017 The summer edition features: Giving Light to Others highlights three former MAM kids who are now MAM workers. MAM President and CEO Randy Odom is Paying it Forward. SNAG Golfers Snag Life Lessons. MAM career readiness students are Dressed to the Nines. Take That for Data shares what our students…
July 13, 2017
My Town Miracles – Kaylin’s Story
Here is an incredible video of Kaylin Fields, the young lady chosen to be the MAM recipient of the My Town Miracles award. Beginning in May 2016, My Town Miracles has started an effort to help an exceptional MAM recent high school graduate have a positive future by providing the…
MAM GOLF DIRECTOR, VINCE ALFONSO, JR...AND MAM GOLFER CAMARION GALISON show how the game of golf is changing lives. Camarion and other youth golfers are learning respect on and off the greens. Local Memphis Live, June 30, 2017, with Amy Speropoulos http://www.localmemphis.com/localmemphislive?videoId=754798343&carousel=1&index=44
The Memphis Daily News, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 By Don Wade Memphis Athletic Ministries president and CEO Randy Odom, the Memphis Grizzlies’ first-ever Youth Basketball Coach of the Year, has been named one of eight semi-finalists for the national Jr. NBA Coach of the Year Award. After advancing from a…
May 17, 2017
Real Game Changer? MAM’s Randy Odom
The Memphis Daily News, Friday, May 12, 2017 By Don Wade Randy Odom’s story starts with a youth basketball coach back in Big Spring, Texas. An otherwise anonymous guy named James Collinsworth, who became everything to a boy trying to find his way. MAM CEO and coach Randy Odom is…
May 11, 2017
BRAVERY
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 Lynette at KAA - Summer 2016 “Bravery.” The one word that Lynette, a junior at Hamilton High School,…