Happy New Year!!

Dear Friends

Hallelujah!!

Families of RFI wish you a very happy new year with God’s grace and blessings!!

 We are thankful for the Lord’s endless love and grace and we are ready to welcome the New year by offering our new year’s greetings to you and yours.

Through our supporters, various organizations, RFI board of directors, and numerous organization and churches, we were able to experience the abundance of God’s love and blessings. As we thank His wide river like grace, we look forward to the plans that God has in place for us in the year 2017.

For the 2016 Christmas event, families that have graduated RFI rehabilitation program came to visited us and about 70 or more RFI students and neighboring families have also showed up with children and enjoyed the meals that we have prepared. We were also able to pass out numerous gifts without missing a single person. We want to thank the friends, churches, foundations, and board of directors for the presents and various donations for the event. For almost 10 years the students studied outside underneath the tents and we had no choice but to host events and serve our guests outside, but for the 2016 Christmas event due the Lord’s grace and our supporter’s overwhelming support, we were able to host and share gifts and offer meals to our neighbors within the completed spacious building. I thank God for friends like you.

I would like to thank deacon Dongil Kim from Ilshin Presbyterian Church for supplying the RFI student’s with school supplies and Deacon Jennifer Cho and her family for providing us with generous contribution and for the gifts.

I would also like to genuinely thank Director Jung Hwa Lim of Livingstone community volunteer group and various volunteer groups and organizations for their hard efforts.

Through the endless prayers and all the supports from friends like you, we are encourage to start the New year with confidence and faith that you will partner with us to fulfill utmost capacities as we spread the Lord’s love.

Whether it is in season or out of season to spread the blessing and love of God to families and the societies that we live in. I believe in faith that your prayers and support will continue to fulfill the works of the Lord. Thank you!!

I thank you again for pouring out your love in the year 2016.

Isaiah 61:3

“To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.”

To friends I offer my blessings and prayers that the Lord will fill your Lives with the bounties of heaven and the riches of the earth in the New Year.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee

Director of RFI

Merry Christmas!!

Dear Friends

Hallelujah!!

Christmas greetings to you from Rainbow Family in the name of our Lord!

In thanking of the Lord’s abundant grace and blessings, the RFI Board of directors and the pastors of Torrance Good Shepherd Church, Calvary Presbyterian church, ILShin Presbyterian church, Evergreen Mission Church, Downey Good Shepherd Church, and about 70 more supporters, held a Worship in thanksgiving of the expansion of the Rainbow home facility.

Through the Global Children Foundation, we were able to meet Union Church where they provided the RFI family members and RFI after school families with turkeys. They directly brought the turkeys to our Home and helped distribute it to the families. Through their good deed, many families have a great Thanksgiving meals. And  showed their desire to hold their hands with us in this journey to help out neighbors in need.

I was very excited to see Bored of Director E.K.Ban who I haven’t seen in a long time attend our worship ceremony.

Jun Min Kyung from the Leaders of Women’s Ministry of the Presbyterian denomination also came to see us.

Due to board of Director Sylvia Kim who catered the food for us, we were able to enjoy and serve wonderful lunch for everyone.

Director Lim Jung Hwa and her volunteers have come out and volunteered their time for the kids. I thank from bottom of my heart to everyone who attended re-opening service of the Home and to those supporters to arise with their contributions through prayers and support.   Praise the Lord!!

This year December 17th starting from 10:30 A.M., we will be hosting our annual event where we will be distributing gifts to our neighbors in need. Not only that but we will also be serving delicious food. I invite our friends to this event.

As Rainbow Family children are anticipating their Christmas gifts, they are writing letters to the Jesus. And of course, I am trying very hard not to dishearten them.

In order to provide returning students who have graduated and our neighbors with gifts, I need your generous help.

1 John 4:10

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

I pray that the living hope of miracles and blessings are with you and your loved ones in this glorious season.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee / Director of RFI

    Rainbow Home                         Elaine family              RFI School For a King

Happy Thanksgiving

Dear Friends,

Hallelujah!!   I hope and pray all is well with you

In a blink of an eye, 2016 has already reached autumn and I am happy to welcome the season of bountiful harvest.

We pray that you will have a bountiful and joyful Thanksgiving this year and Rainbow Family is offering our greetings in the name of the Lord.

We are relaying much joyful news. Due to the abundant and unrestrained love from our supporters that allowed for the gathering of donations and prayers, the construction of our ministry has finally been completed.

As we are entering the month of Thanksgiving, I am urged to look back year of 2016 and to see all the blessings and majestic actions that have been produced from the living God. In thanks I cannot stop praising the Lord as I feel the reward of being trustful and patient with what the Lord has willed for us and promised.

I had been praying for the absolute completion of this construction project, deacon Mr.& Mrs. Michael and EK Ban who is board of directors of R.F.I. and a server of New Hope Church, has offered donations in thanks to the Lord for their 35 year wedding anniversary. With this donation, we will be able to wrap up the construction process with fences and Play ground for the children, cement for the front yard.

I genuinely thank Mr.& Mrs. Michael and EK Ban for their generosity and compassion.

In this building of about 4,300 square feet, we can house 7 to 8 families and help 20 to 30 RFI students with biblical knowledge and values. This place has become an important and precious place for the expansion of God’s Kingdom. Again and again I thank you from very bottom of my heart and give all the glory to God. .

Psalm 100:4-5

“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.”

I pray that the power of resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ will be with you, your family, and your church always and God bless you and yours!

Because He lives,

Liz Lee/ Director of RFI

 Meenah Won Jennifer Cho Young Suk Shin Kyung Il Park Torrance Good Shepherd Church

Dear Friends,

Halleluiah!!

During this harvest season where the mountains and fields are covered in abundant flowers like embroidery,

I hope and pray all is well with you and yours. Greetings to you from Rainbow family in the name of our Lord.

As we are approaching the end of construction of Rainbow Family home, I cannot hide my tears and grateful heart as I praise and thank the Lord. when I recognize once more his faithfulness and continuous renewal of his blessings.

I genuinely thank the RFI Board of Directors and support from loving friends like you for visiting the construction site and supporting us with your prayers and financial contribution.

Always having been an answer to our prayers, founder of the Won foundation, Mrs.Meenah Won visited the rainbow home construction site, offered various advices, and also deliver the building funs from the foundation.

I pray that the Lord will bless all the good works that are being done through the Won foundation.

Il shin Presbyterian Church, deacon Jennifer Cho who has heart for underprivileged children visited and offered donations for the construction project as she showed her compassion in helping neighbors in need.

I thank the Lord for her generosity and loving heart.

A long time friend of Rainbow Family who serves Riverside Mission Center, elder Young Suk Shin happily visited construction site and also provided us with funds and prayers for the Home. I thank the Lord for her amazing compassion.

Doctor Kyung Il Park, a founding member of the Livingstone Organization, provided donations under his deceased wife’s name to honor her. I was left speechless as I saw Doctor Park hold in his tears while he was telling me about his late wife’s compassion for neighbors who faced hardships through an old picture.

One of our major supporters Pastor Hyun Su Kim and Pastor Chang Kwon Kim, elder Bo k. Park of Torrance Good Shepherd Church, and Livingstone community volunteer program Director Jung Hwa Lim have visited and we hold a worship service and praise the Lord in one accord. I once again thank their willingness to offer their endless support.

I want to thank the supporters who participated in the 2016 Phone-a-thon, please join in this yearly fundraising event to help the neighbor in need.

Psalm121:1-2

“I lift up my eyes to the mountains- where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”

I pray that the power of risen Lord Jesus Christ and heavenly blessing will be with you, your family, and your church always.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee  Director of RFI

     Rainbow Family home             Rainbow Kid’s                  Sunny Foundation   

Dear Friends,

Halleluiah!!

Hope and pray all is well with you and yours.

Greetings to you from Rainbow family in the name of our Lord.

Our longtime friend and supporter President Joo and the Manager from Sunny Foundation, have visited the construction site, offered advice, and brought contribution to the RFI building fund. Their consistent support and interest have been such a great encouragement to us… Thank You!

As the Rainbow Home is finishing up with the construction, I am happy to say that we have 8 bedrooms so that we can help more than 6-7 single mother families in order for them to reside in the home. My heart is beating for hope and joy as we have dedicated the downstairs for the fundamentals of recovery for the families that are going to be heal through his abundant love and conquer life in his peace. Looking at the big dining room and “School For King” classes rooms, and the expanded aisles, tears come out in joy as I vision the moms and the kids that are going to grow in the home to become leaders in Society.

Fourteen years ago in Fullerton, the Ministry that started with the small giving of my personal property. With Lord’s blessings has laid down its roots and also bore fruits, allowing many Single moms and children have been giving opportunity to live victorious new lives. I endlessly thank God’s grace that has blessed us and the supporters for allowing this ministry to become a place for those who want to live by the Word.  

I want to thank those who responded to last month’s newsletter and helped with our goal of getting 100 people to offer $500 in donation for the building fund. I also want to thank those who are not going to hold back on the support and prayers in September.

Just as we planned the construction of the Rainbow home will be done by the end of September. In order to finish the construction and for us to welcome the single mothers families and students of “School for King” I ask in favor for your support and prayers. We can’t do this without you, please help us!

Pastor Park and I have been humbly praying in obedience and preparing for the new chapter of RFI and to be witness for his goodness and faithfulness to the world and continuously share the gospel of love and grace.

John6:9-10

“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down. There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there)”

 I pray that the power of resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ will be with you, your family, and your church always. Blessing to you and yours.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee

Director of RFI