b'Freedom Rising: an Independent Interfaith PortalEven though COVID-19 and the fire forced us into new ways of being, the educational and justice programs are persisting through our MiddleVision StatementChurch Community Center, as well as our new Freedom School. Freedom Rising, an evolutionFreedom Rising is an intergenerational of our current independent 501(c)3, will providelaboratory for human development that uses a more robust secular and interfaith portal fortools from sociology, psychology, theology, building partnerships in our movement. This isethics, history, STEM, environmental science, part of our strategy to rebuild our site, reclaim andand the arts to prepare leaders to create a just, reframe Christian, and repair a broken world withgenerous, fully inclusive and antiracist society fierce, revolutionary Love. in which humans, creatures, and the planet can survive and thrivetogether. Joy in our Freedom Summer School.Inspired by the Freedom Summer of 1964 1 and the intergenerational Freedom Schools that popped up in Mississippi, Freedom Rising curates educational events, convenes activists across disciplines, cultivates the arts and generates an intersectional justice agenda toward healing the world. Our theory of change is grounded in the spirit of Ubuntuour destinies are inextricably connectedand in fierce neighbor love. 1 www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedomsummer8 MIDDLE RISING'