Local Missions

We are a church that is for the city- we believe in Memphis and desire to see it flourish. Therefore, we seek restoration and transformation in our city through praying, giving, and serving with our ministry partners.

Christ Church has prioritized our local ministry in the Binghampton neighborhood for nearly 40 years, helping to launch Service Over Self, the Binghampton Development Corporation, and Cornerstone Prep, and supporting numerous other ministries that seek gospel-centered restoration in the neighborhood.

Ministry Partnerships

We are committed to working with organizations in our city that address strategic issues with the hope of the gospel.

Education

Cornerstone Prep & Lester Prep

Cornerstone Prep- Lester Campus and Lester Prep Middle School utilize academic rigor to equip all students with the skills and character necessary to success in college and become life-changing leaders in their community. Cornerstone and Lester educate approximately 700 students in Binghampton grades Pre-K through 8th grade.

East High School

Serving students since September of 1948, East High School, together with parents and the community, provides a positive learning environment in a comprehensive setting that encourages and prepares students to be responsible and contributing members of society.

Arise2Read

ARISE2Read takes an active role in the development of children in our public schools through the presence of volunteers focused on literacy. We tutor students one hour per week utilizing a simple sight word approach. Volunteers have the ability to read with students from Cornerstone Prep on Monday and Wednesday mornings.

Economic Development

Binghampton Development Corporation

The BDC is a Christian community development corporation founded to improve the quality of life in the historic Memphis neighborhood of Binghampton through property development, housing counseling, community building, urban farming and early childhood and parent education. Get Going

Jacob’s Well

This unique United Methodist congregation is marked by remarkable racial, economic and cultural diversity as it grows in the Gospel while overcoming the personal and social obstacles of racism, addiction and poverty.

Room In The Inn

Room in the Inn-Memphis recruits local communities of faith to open their doors to unsheltered neighbors during the coldest months of the year—November through March. Christ Church hosts a group once a month through a partnership with Christ the King Lutheran Church.

Neighborhood Christian Center

The Benevolence Ministry at Christ Church partners with the Neighborhood Christian Center to be the hands and feet of Jesus to those outside the congregation with economic and spiritual needs. Their mission is to guide those in need toward stability and sustainability through compassionate, Christ centered ministries and empowerment programs.

Economic Opportunities

EcOp Memphis is a ministry that reaches out to ex-offenders, helping them find jobs and change their lives. The ministry leverages a unique Shepherd Model to deliver exceptional workers to courageous employers.

Youth Development

Service Over Self

SOS exists to glorify God by proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ in underserved neighborhoods through home repair and leadership development.

Eikon Ministries

Eikon is a disciple-making youth ministry in the Binghampton Neighborhood. Eikon's mission is to build urban leaders who will change the community from the inside out. Eikon staff and volunteers accomplish this by being a visible Jesus in the community.

Memphis Gridiron Ministries

MGM exists to utilize the unique environment of youth football to share and model the gospel of Christ to grade school boys and to help build selfless character in the neighborhood of Binghampton. The ministry has teams from 3-5 grade that plays its home games at The Hamp.

JIFF

JIFF exists to break the destructive cycle of juvenile crime through Christ-centered intervention. They desire to see youth flourish, free from a life of crime by collaborating with other ministries and the juvenile court system to provide mentoring and other services to youth in Memphis.

Douglass Cornerstone

Douglass Cornerstone is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that extends a helping hand to residents of the Douglass Community. Their mission is to foster commitment to youth and families that promote stability and assert hope in the neighborhood.

Health Care

Christ Community Health Services

CCHS provides affordable medical, dental, and pharmaceutical care for uninsured men and women in Memphis at their seven locations. The ministry desires to provide high quality healthcare to the underserved and uninsured in the context of a distinctively Christian service.

Life Choices

Empowering birth parents to choose and cherish life, this state-licensed Christian adoption agency offers complete adoption services in addition to free and confidential services like confirmations of pregnancy and pregnancy counseling.

Memphis Family Connection Center

Memphis Family Connection Center provides connection based trauma informed care to the Shelby County, TN adoptive, foster care and special needs community.

One by One Ministries

One by One Ministries mentors and educates new moms to parent well so that children thrive! The ministry offers hope, support and parent education to moms through mentoring. They also equip volunteers from local churches to mentor expectant parents or parents with brand new babies.

RestoreCorps

RestoreCorps exists to eradicate human trafficking by empowering survivors, equipping communities, and seeking justice through systemic change. They desire to see a slave free community through the rehabilitation and empowerment of survivors and a community galvanized against human trafficking.

International Ministry

Refugee Empowerment

Working with those that have been settled through World Relief, REP exists to empower the refugee community by encouraging, educating, and equipping individuals and families through school programs, summer programs, adult education program, character education classes for adolescents, college preparation classes, Pre-GED classes for adults, a women's leadership program, and Bible studies for youth and adults.

World Relief

Working with those that have been settled through World Relief, REP exists to empower the refugee community by encouraging, educating, and equipping individuals and families through school programs, summer programs, adult education program, character education classes for adolescents, college preparation classes, Pre-GED classes for adults, a women's leadership program, and Bible studies for youth and adults.

Memphis Chinese Evangelical Church

MCEC is an active, energetic and very welcoming community which meets on our campus. They would love to connect with members and welcome visits to their Friday Bible Study, 6:00-9:00 in Wilson Ross 415/416.

Why Binghampton?

The best way for us to seek restoration in our city is to direct our efforts into a longterm commitment to building relationships and serving alongside one neighborhood. This model of Christian Community Development seeks to address multiple issues- education, economic development, youth development, health care, and international ministry- in one neighborhood. For nearly 40 years, Christ Church has launched and supported numerous ministries that seek gospel-centered restoration in Binghampton.