When is freedom weekend

Lunch 1 p. Afternoon Activity p. Leave for Church 7 p. Worship Service 9 p. Prepare For Late Night Activity p. Late Night Activity Starts p. Leave for Host Home p. Quiet Time 10 a. Leave Host Home a. Arrive at Student Building 11 a.

Worship Service p. Baptisms 1 p. Freedom Weekend Ends. Freedom Weekend is all about helping students experience true freedom in Jesus - freedom from their past, freedom to embrace who God has created them to be, and freedom to step boldly into their destiny!

This year's hashtag: FW Dismissal Home Friday - January 14 p. Lights Out Saturday - January 15 a. Lights Out Sunday - January 16 a.

Each staff member is worth a different number of points. Think you can do it? Freedom Weekend Aloft staff tried several alternatives, but it wasn't until Anderson, aware of its economic contribution, offered its facilities in that the balloonists, concessionaires, and the performers moved 30 miles away.

They also switched the date to the calmer Memorial Day Weekend. The festival remained in Anderson until , when, with funding from the Greenville Hospital System, it moved to Simpsonville. In June , organizers announced that it had filed for bankruptcy. A bit more : Aloft directors announced in June that the year-old hot air balloon festival would cease operations and file for bankruptcy. Chapter 7 isn't the kind of bankruptcy where a company can reorganize, get some debts off its books and come roaring back, a la General Motors or Delta Airlines.

Once that process is through, there's no Aloft left," said John Fort, who is serving as the bankruptcy trustee for the case. Bankruptcy attorney Randy Skinner could not be reached for comment on the current status of the filing.

Once the bankruptcy proceedings are completed, the corporation behind the festival will be dissolved, and along with it the will of its previous leaders to get a similar event off the ground. Though it spent its golden years at Heritage Park in Simpsonville, Aloft's start was as Freedom Weekend Aloft — or lovingly "Freedom Weekend Afloat" to those of us who endured soaking summer storms during the annual July 4 celebration — at the former Donaldson Center.