In my time at Cornell, I have been on a missions trip with Cru to Panama City Beach, FL, three times, Guatemala City, Guatemala, one time, and East Asia, one time. Each trip, whether I was a participant or a leader, has helped to facilitate both my spiritual growth and also those of other people…
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I currently work for Cru, which does have a lot of short term missions trips. There’s some thought on these trips that I will probably address later on in different blogs, but I just wanted to share something I thought was interesting in my reading. One thing everyone has to ask about short term missions…
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If you have the chance, I would love to encourage you to read John Ch 13. In this chapter, Jesus is gathered together with his disciples the night before the Passover Feast, where he shares his last meal with them. On our NYC trip, I shared this passage with the students and shared three applications…
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This past Spring Break, I had the opportunity to lead a group of 24 students to NYC for a Missions Trip. I have a hard time calling it a missions trip. If anything, I really see it as a learning experience and vision trip for the students and our ministry. We partnered with Hope Church…
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I have been meditating on this scripture for a while and have found it very encouraging to both my own soul and hopefully to yours as well. In chapter 16 of the book of John, Jesus is having the last supper with his disciples in which he tells them how he will be leaving soon.…
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As a Christian, all of our life is based upon faith. We trust in the fact that God is there and what He said is true. We can feel insecure at times about our salvation maybe because we are messing up in our walk with Jesus or we are just feeling spiritually depressed. But our…
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by George Mueller (1805-1898) While I was staying at Nailsworth, it pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, irrespective of human instrumentality, as far as I know, the benefit of which I have not lost, though now…more than forty years have since passed away. The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever,…
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What would you want if you could actually see it for what it is worth? Moldy Bread or Lifey Bread? Not sure what this means? Read on! or Earlier in Chapter 6, Jesus feeds FIVE THOUSAND or so men, and who knows how many women or children came along, with just five loaves and two…
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There is much confusion of what exactly is doing God’s work. So what does Jesus say about it? Let’s see! Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” (John 6:28-29, ESV) The work of God…
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William Poon is an MBA student at Cornell Tech. He’s also a VC Fund Manager with Big Red Ventures, Cornell’s MBA run VC fund. He’s looking for Strategy, Product, or VC roles after the MBA program.
Previously he’s started two companies and working in Impact Investing. He’s helped start a startup accelerator for education, healthcare, and finance.
Laborers in the Vineyard
Read this chapter from the Bible below, then check out this article, randomly read both of these on the same day. haha. Christianity is crazy, and now we know how the world would react to it. Well, we already knew, this just proves it. A CEO raised his company’s minimum wage to $70,000 a year,…
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