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 Summit definitely left me a deep impression. There are several innovative leaders, who established or helped to established their organization gave speech targeting different situations of poverty and  how that triggered them to do something about it.

During the break, what Phil mentioned to us was rational and made me think more deeply about the conference, the speakers and ourselves. It was the verses from Genesis that Phil mentioned which tells us that God created the whole world and human beings according to His image. God has already put something valuable and unique in each one of us, and even sometimes we doubt and deny ourselves, we are special in God’s eyes and we are able to do something by using the characteristics and gifts that God put in us. Such as those speakers, they couldn’t have known everything when they started their business/organization. On the contrary, there were obstacles and difficulties, however, they just took the step forward simply by their faith in what they were doing, to help alleviating poverty in the world. I am appreciated that we are the children of God, and in Him we have no fear.