Norma and Bianca             R.F.I . Summer School              Veronica’s Family

Dear Friends,

Hallelujah!!

I hope and pray all is well with you and yours.

With a grateful heart that resides under God’s grace, Rainbow Family offers our greetings

As an extension of the all year round after school program for the low income families in our community, Summer School has started. This year we have 27 students in the summer school program. Because of financial issues, these single mother families are facing many hardships. But fortunately, help from friends like you Rainbow Family is able to confidently hold the torch in the front lines and serve as a leader for the efforts in community improvement.

In our Rainbow Family home, there are 6 families that are residing with us. The family that joined us last month was Norma, a 43-year-old single mother, and her 9-year-old daughter, Bianca. Due to addiction, Norma and the father of her daughter resorted to selling drugs of which they got  jail sentence for. Bianca’s father parted ways and therefore made it difficult to know his whereabouts for many years. Norma, full of anxiety, has been in shelters, rehabilitation centers, and jail. Because of this she was forced to stay distant and away from her daughter. She confesses she has never felt such joy of waking up with her daughter and eat breakfast together every day. Every morning during bible study, she thanks the Lord for giving her a second chance in life.

Please pray and support for Norma and Bianca’s new beginning.

34-year-old Veronica, along with her 12-year-old daughter, Jenavi, 9-year-old daughter, Angelina, and Aldo who just celebrated his first birthday, have joined our Rainbow Family last month. Amidst the hardship that Veronica and her children’s father faced due to their addiction to drugs, her young children were taken from her. She went through the rehabilitation program and she could get her children back from the children protective services. Even their father is going through the process at the rehabilitation and is making progress. Veronica is steadily making great progress as she is reading the bible, hoping that she will be able to marry children’s father in the future and live out the life that God had planned for her and the children. Please pray for Veronica that her life may be prosperous.

I want to deeply thank you from bottom of my heart for your prayers and support as it had allowed Rainbow home to become a refuge and shelter for single mothers and their children .

Ephesians 2:10

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

I pray and bless that above your family, church, business, and ministry, the power of the Resurrection will allow for making all things prosperous.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee

Director of RFI

       Blessing Church                      Graduation                Having Fun Shopping

Dear Friends,

Hallelujah!!

I hope and pray all is well with you and yours.

With a grateful heart that resides under God’s grace, Rainbow Family offers our greetings.

Last month, Pastor Hedge and the Youth Group from Blessing Church that is located in Anaheim have visited our Home and shared the gospel, in which we enjoyed a great time together. 9 of the R.F.I. School children were able to experience precious times of receiving Jesus.

I give all the glory to the Lord and thank their great passion and love for the gospel.

Elaine’s Daughter Isabella, who has been living in the Home, along with 4 other students who have grown and been a part of Rainbow Family School program for last 4-5 years also have graduated elementary school. Isabella had also received the president’s award which made even more proud. I praise and thank the loving Lord as I pray for their future so that the Lord may shine his marvelous light and bless their lives. 10 year old fifth grader Samuel, who lives with us, lift up everyone’s day when he brought his report card that showed great improvement from the one before. Hallelujah!!

The clothes and toys that you send have been a tremendous help for the less fortunate children in the community.

R.F.I summer school we are expecting 20-25 students and volunteers.

Pleases sand your prayers and support so that these children will have chance to listen to the gospel and gain hope so that they may change the future of society for the better. I trust and thank that the Lord, who is the source of all blessings, will provide blessings for your faith in Him in an abundant and overflowing manner.

I thank you from bottom of my heart for your love.

John 17:8

“For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.”

I pray and bless that above your family, church, business, and ministry, the power of the Resurrection will allow for making all things prosperous.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee

Director of RFI

      His University                        Field trip                        Girl Scout troop 1175

Hallelujah!!

Dear Friends,

I hope and pray all is well with you and your family. Month of May is a Family month.

I hope and pray that the heavenly love and peace will fill your home.

During the construction process of expanding our Home, the playground had to be taken out. Thankfully enough, as I was praying about the children’s play area, someone has donate funs for the completion of the playground. I praise the Lord who never rests and ceaselessly works for those who rely on the resurrected Christ.

Last month, those who studied counseling at the His Theological Seminary visit Rainbow Family home. They were not only wise and intelligent but they also put their love and faith into practice. We exchanged these passions and precious information so that we may further our mission as well. We prayed that we may find a road together in which we were given the opportunity to praise the Lord. Through our relationships and great encouragement, we were obtain the vision of the Lord’s will. Thank you very much,

Past few years every Saturday, the Livingstone volunteer Organization has offered music and art therapy to RFI students. The director Lim Jung Hwa leads has been participating in various events like drawing on murals in new shopping center “The Source”  we took pictures and enjoyed a great time. We also watched a new 4D movie with the kids and enjoyed a delicious meal together. I would like to genuinely thank director Lim Jung Hwa and the volunteers for their dedication and love towards the children in the community.

We had Girl Scout troop 1175 came to visit us with many toys, clothing, games and soccer balls for everyone. Children was encouraged and truly felt the love of God. I want to thank the parents and the troops for being part of our lives.

From the beginning of June, summer school 2017 will start for the RFI School for a King. It starts at 10 a.m. all the way through 3 pm daily. We take them on field trips, and swimming also offer breakfast and lunch. We perceive there to be about 25 students. I want you to know that without your help all this is impossible.PLwon’t you help me so that these kids will be able to experience the love and joy during this summer! I thank you from bottom of my heart.

Isaiah 61:1

“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,^”

I pray and bless that above your family, church, business, and ministry, the power of the Resurrection will allow for making all things prosperous.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee / Director of RFI

      2017 walk-a-thon                  Happy walk –a-thon                   RFI girls

“Praise the Risen Lord!!”

Dear Friends,

Hallelujah!!

I hope and pray all is well with you and yours.

The abundantly sprouting buds and the blooming flowers seem to be joining us in the praise of our Lord’s resurrection. The moms in our home have immersed themselves in the rehabilitation process and living healthy lives under God’s grace and His word. The almighty and Resurrected Lord who could have avoided the cost of the cross by calling army of angels and saved himself but he endured the cross for us. I praise him for giving us the opportunity to be resurrected within him. As our Rainbow Family members possess the power of the resurrection and strive to live our lives as new creation in Christ as fear and trembling we work in our salvation daily. Even the 20 students of the RFI School children are recognizing the power of the resurrection and the grace of salvation. I thank the Lord and friends like you making this possible.

We held a 2017 walk-a-thon last month.

Director Lim Jung Hwa from Livingstone, volunteers, parents, our rainbow families, and even the after school kids specially this year our board members and Thanksgiving church members came and joined together to participate in this event. All the workers have joyfully finished the walk-a-thon which was a route consisting of 50 blocks in the neighborhood. Afterwards we were able to share time and talk about the grace and love of God as we ate a delicious lunch. I thank the Lord that he allowed us to walk with grateful hearts and gave us the strength to walk the distance. I would also like to genuinely thank the volunteers who participated in the walk and the donors who have donated for these walkers.

As the scale of our ministry is getting larger we need help financially and overall for the ministry. As we are praying for more contributions to come in order to help single mothers and their children, we pray and ask for your best gift this month and continuously in order for us to spread the gospel to our community and allow for consistent education for the RFI kids. I believe that poverty can be overcome with education through the gospel. In order to allow for Rainbow Family Ministry to create a society of all different people that may grow together.

I need your help more than ever before!!

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” 1 Peter 1:3

I pray and bless that above your family, church, business, and ministry, the power of the Resurrection will allow for making all things prosperous.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee / Director of RFI

Rainbow Family board meeting     Stella shin and her son           Calvary Church

Dear Friends,

Hallelujah!!

All the grateful ladies and children in Rainbow Family home send you greeting in the name of the Lord,

I would like to introduce another new family member that has joined us last month. Stella Shin 39 years old single mother and her 10 years old son Sam. Stella grew up in Brazil and immigrated to the United States at 18 years old with her Korean parents. She has had a very hard time adapting to the new culture and ways of living in the United States. She was having financial trouble going to shelter to shelter can’t find a permanent place to live with her son.  Wonderful couple from the church in Rowland heights brought her to Rainbow home, she was telling me if I had known place like this existed I would have came here long time ago and she laid her head on my shoulder, I thank the Lord for his grace and mercy, I pray that the Lord who bless her humble disposition and grateful heart will heal her and restore confidence in her son Sam as well. She sadly mentioned that had she found this place earlier, she would have had an earlier start to a new life. Please support her family with prayers that they may succeed in the Lord.

The 2017 RFI board of directors has elected Sylvia Kim as the Chair Woman.  Please pray for us and support us. As RFI board first seek his kingdom and his righteousness. Thank God for friends like you!

An old friend of RFI that has been always by our sides, the woman’s missionary of Calvary Presbyterian Church has held a devotion worship in which they invited me and gave me an opportunity to share the word and the fellowship, I genuinely thank Pastor Jung Chan Kim and his wife and the church members for their love.

The 2017 Walk-a-thon is planned for Saturday March 18th.

We are planning to leave the Rainbow Home at 9:30 a.m. and walk 50 blocks in which we will end around 12:30 p.m. After that we will have Lunch and fellowship. Please participate and support the walkers of this event.

Ephesians2:10

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

I pray that God would bless richly your church, home, business and ministry and that His mighty power be with you always.

Because He lives,

Liz Lee

Director of RFI

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