There's a story of Steve Jobs' NeXT days before his remarkable comeback at Apple when he was contemplating coming back to Apple or running his NeXT and Pixar at the time. He contacted a friend of his opinion and his reply was 'Oh Steve, I don't give a sh*t about Apple" and he realized he was stunned by the feedback and he knew he had his answer. He was stunned because he still cared about Apple. It's a good thing the world needs.

Paul Graham has an article on why they started Y combinator and his reason was a way he and his old friends from his previous startup could still hangout after successfully selling their startup to yahoo. Also it was a way he could fund some hackers and do Angel investment. 

Based on the two stories, I believe you need to work on things you care about with people you have some really great past with. And that's one of the reasons.

Hope Journey is a way we work on Christian missions with friends and colleagues. It's a way we reconnect after going through the whole year and cool off the stress from the activities. 

Hope Journey provides a daily devotional for people. It provides connection for young Christians to network and also it's a way people receive the gospel and Christmas gift. 

Sometimes it looks like we are just a bunch of people who are wasting time and resources on people we don't know. But that's the essence of being good in Christianity, doing good to people you don't really know and caring about them deeply as if they're your family. Without expectations nothing but you know you're just being a successful vessel for God. 

I believe it's a good thing that needs to exist. We are not where we want to be but I'm proud of what we've achieved

so far. 

After working on projects and working on lots of unrelated things. The greatest realization for me now is that my entire mission is to organize things to be useful to people Like how Elon Musk is obsessed with extending human civilization, mine is this; Helping humans cut through the entropy in work, business and also in other facets of society. I realized that's my gift.

At iRedylabs Technologies (established in 2015), we organize information and data to be useful for work; information on your website is basically that, information on flyers and business designs. Information about your business. ERP systems we develop does same; organize your internal information to be useful for work. At Church my role has always been about media and assisting with the admin work but realized over the years I was just organizing information to be useful for church members and those who do backroom work at the church. I realized that even at the Youth group that's what I was doing. And not only organsing information but people. Mobilizing them to come together so we solve a big problem around; chocked gutter, rearranging store room, repainting signs and etc. I'm mostly not the one who does all the work but I try to bring people with certain skills together to get the things done. 

Now back to Hope Journey. 

I think Hope Journey as an organization has a task of being the only organization that will intentionally push missions by youth. By organizing events that are missions focused. The hardest job in Christianity is doing real missions, the traditional way. Go to people do house to house, establish churches and offering aid when needed. No independent youth organization is doing that currently maybe continuously doing that for the last 10 years. And Hope Journey's role is to be the organsier of these things like modern Day Basel missionary society, like modern Day Holy Ghost fathers, Richmond African Missionary society, The China inland mission, the Wesleyan society. These things push the Christian agenda forward. 

Hope Journey exist because old traditional biblical missions is hard work and nobody is willing to do it again. At most youth don't want to and that's why we exist because we will. We want to preach the Gospel daily, Do house to House, support establishment of new churches in remote areas, get people educated in an intentional Christian way.

Currently we have lots of ideas but funding is a problem but as George Muller, the missionary said, "It is his work and he shall provide for his work."