Sponsor Week 2019

Our goal is to pair every scholar with a supportive sponsor who will match the tuition. Contact us if you want to learn more about Scholar Sponsorship at Rise. Support Rise  

5K Family Fun Run

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Bayview Become – Love in Action

God opened my eyes at camp. Bayview Become, a six-day camp held at Rise Prep, welcomed seventeen kids between 9 to 14 years of age, with a number of them being either current or prospective students of Rise Prep. We participated in a range of activities which included boxing, basketball, dissecting a squid, building rockets, […]

Sponsor Week 2018: Nurturing and Being Nurtured

Sweet pea pods, shiny swiss chard, and dinner plate dahlias are springing up from our local garden.  As the students tend this bountiful planter box, they experience the cumulative effects of sunlight, rain, water, good soil, and care that make such a harvest possible. Miracle and Grace hold the bounty of our spring harvest in […]

Youthful Muse: 78 year old Iona Lawhorn Speaks of Rivers

Ms. Iona Lawhorn lost her sight in her twenties, but she did not let that stop her from reading and experiencing life through poetry and words.  Ms. Lawhorn visited her public library asking the librarian for recordings by black authors, and she became enthralled by the poet Langston Hughes, listening to his poems on cassette […]

Girls on the Rise

First Lady Demetra Hillman of Bayview’s Shekinah Christian Fellowship threw back to her middle school years, sharing her own insecurities as she navigated adolescence with its harsh judgments of appearance and personality. First Lady Hillman confided, “I felt alone; I felt isolated; I felt ashamed.” If not for her strong community and family, her practice […]