2014 IFI Fellowship Dinner/Fundraiser
Last Friday, IFI had its annual fellowship dinner/fundraiser. We had 92 tables of 10 and approximately 900 people attended. It’s so wonderful to have people with the same heart and passion to gather together and share experiences and praise God. Before the dinner, Amity and I went to the union to help setting up. […]
Trip and some Thoughts
Lexie – 3/10/2014 After a busy and cold winter, my friends and I decided to relax ourselves and head for a soothing road trip. We were really excited and had multiple plans and ideas for our upcoming trip. In the end, we all decided to take a few days road trip from Columbus to Washington, DC […]
Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship Summit 2014
This post is from Lexie, one of our 2013/14 interns. On March 22nd, as one of the IFI interns, I was glad to have the opportunity to attend 2014 Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship Summit Conference at The Wexner Center for the Arts. I don’t have much experience attending seminars like this, but the 2014 APTE […]
Be inspired and change your perspective
I am touched when I saw the passion flowing in the APTE Summit. They are using social business and connecting with resources and capitals to alleviate poverty. Brilliant and creative! They address social problems like sanitation in Africa. Other than the topic itself, I did learn a lot from the speakers about social business and […]
Reflection on Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship Summit 2014
On March 22nd, 2014, I attended the Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship (ANTE) Summit 2014 with Lexie and Amity. This event was to present entrepreneurs with their vision, business model, as well as their endeavor to break the poverty circle. (http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2011/05/26/global-poverty-action-fund-open-for-applications/) God has blessed my life with material abundance. I could not imagine how life would […]
Some Thoughts about a Recent Trip
After a busy and cold winter, my friends and I decided to relax ourselves and head for a soothing road trip. We were really excited and had multiple plans and ideas for our upcoming trip. In the end, we all decided to take a few days road trip from Columbus to Washington, DC for two […]
Group pride
Last Thursday we were talking about pride vs. humility during our training session and Karen shared about racial prejudice.I was quite shocked when I heard that the first intern in IFI knelt down in front of her world history class classmates to ask for forgiveness of what her country had done during World War II. […]
God’s Creation
It has been a long time that Columbus was covered by snow and rain this winter. When the temperature finally increased to 60 last Thursday, my friends and I was so excited and decided to go running outside. We went to the Olentangy Trial, and I am so glad that we made it because it […]
Mark 6:1-6
Today, I am reading Mark 6:1-6. Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the Sabbath came,he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he […]
Lunar (Chinese) New Year Celebration
Like people from all other cultures that celebrate the new beginning of a year, Chinese and people from some other Asian countries celebrate New Year too. However, the beginning of a year is not January 1st. Instead, it varies every year based on the lunar calendar. January 31st of this year is the first […]