REP: Educating, Empowering, and Paving the Way - Meeting the educational needs of refugee children a
Camela Echols Blackmon, known as “Cam,” is a native Memphian. She got her start working as a social service director for the United...


Building Hope for New Americans - Welcoming a Stranger is a Calling of Faith in Binghampton
When Cam Echols thinks of her work as the executive director of the Refugee Empowerment Program (REP), she speaks of a calling that...


Linking the Hopes of Communities, Cities, and Society - Revitalizing a Cross Section of the United S
It’s completely reasonable to step back and view the Memphis neighborhood of Binghampton as a microcosm of the United States as a...


Creating Community in The Commons - Transforming a Building into a Center of Revitalization
Three years ago the possibility of the church at the corner of McAdoo and Oxford in Memphis’s Binghampton neighborhood becoming a...