Author - Michael Phillips

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community, friendship, recreation

Open Play Opens Hearts

January 29, 2018

For two hours every Thursday, a diverse group of people gets together for a relaxed, informal evening of fun playing volleyball. This group has been gathering for over...

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education, mentoring, service

Team Read Love

January 22, 2018

Every week over 1400 volunteers lovingly tutor students in our city’s schools through Team Read, a volunteer tutoring program that helps second graders improve their...

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community, Nonprofit, service

Being Great

January 15, 2018

In his sermon on February 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged his congregation to seek greatness through service and love, not fame and fortune. “Everybody...

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community, faith, health, recreation

Moving Beyond Our Same Selves

January 8, 2018

Meet Miss Maggie, whose involvement with the Salvation Army stretches back for 40 years. She worked first as a cleaner at its original location, then as a cook at its...

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faith, family, justice, Nonprofit, service

Turning Pain into Purpose

January 1, 2018

The nephew Charlene raised was killed in 2011. Tara’s son was killed two weeks before his high school graduation in 2015. These two women have worked tirelessly for...

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community, faith, family, food, Nonprofit, service

Room in the Inn

December 18, 2017

Room in the Inn Memphis (RITI) is an ecumenical ministry that serves people experiencing homelessness. Modeled after the hugely successful Room in the Inn program that...

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faith, family, Nonprofit

Reunited

December 11, 2017

Shukriya, whose name means thankful, was separated from her family in East Africa over ten years ago. She was resettled in the United States a few years later. Since...

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business, education, mentoring, Nonprofit

Empowering Entrepreneurs

December 4, 2017

Let’s Innovate Through Education (LITE) equips African American and Latinx students with the skills, connections, and capital to create wealth. Since its launch four...

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faith, health, Nonprofit, service

Gratitude with Grace

November 27, 2017

Meet Grace, a patient advocate at Christ Community Health Services (CCHS). CCHS offers compassionate physical, mental, social, and spiritual care to the medically...

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business, community, faith, food, Nonprofit, service

Common Table

November 20, 2017

For the season of thanks and giving, we share a few words and images of food and fellowship, agreement and abundance, gathering and gratitude and giving back, from our...