The President
Mission Rainbow
Wattala

Dear Sir,

First and most we thank the lord Jesus Christ; Through the Mission Rainbow God has done marvelous things in the live of the church in Trincomalee district. We are very much thankful for the board members & the donors for all your support in the past. Actually we have been blessed by the Mission Rainbow in various ways in the ministry. Mission Rainbow also introduced donors to the church do relief and rehabilitation work.  Soon after the Tsunami disaster the mission team landed in the Trincomalee area and started to work through the Methodist church in this region following categories.

• Strengthen the existing Church.
• Supplied relief items
•  Support the orphanages
•  Special helps to Tsunami victims children& family lively hood activities among the Tsunami victims
• small holding business
• fishing
• fish mongers & vegetables sellers
•  firewood sellers

Strengthened the existing Church in spirituality.

Mission Rainbow team visited the Tsunami affected area and show the love of Christ who have really in need of affection and prayer. They spend their valuable time and huge of amount of money to visit such areas and incarnate and identify with the victims to strengthen their spiritual life and also show the Christian fellowship.
Mission Rainbow Also invited number of missionaries from aboard and organized revival meetings, healing services to warm the spiritual life of belivers and many of them received power of holy sprit and healed. This was a tremendous encouragement to belivers, who were in distressed, helpless and spiritual thirst. All these spiritual meetings, seminars and bible studies have been helped the church in numerous ways to grow. We also thankful that most our meetings were sponsored by the mission rainbow.

We have received electric organ and octopad to enrich the worship and to use for  the open air meetings.  

Supplied relief items.

Soon after the Tsunami disaster Mission Rainbow brought dry food items, clothes, soaps, tin fish, tined beef, educational materials (school bags, exercise books, and pencils pens), shoes under pans and various items to the Tsunami affected families. This was shared among 480 families who are in different places. Actually this relief help went up to verugal area and met their need. This help also carried long way in our mission work.

Support Given to orphanages.

 Trincomalee Boys& nilaveli girls’ orphanages were helped in a tremendous way. Mission Rainbow found some sponsorship for Tsunami victims’ children, iron trunks given to girls’ home and financial support was given to the up stair building of the boys’ home Trincomalee. All these helps has played vital role in the life of orphans. The new up stair building has come up to the roof level, all the exterior plastering working is on the way. But whatever money was allocated for this building not enough for to do concrete flooring, wiring, painting and electrical fittings due to the increase of building materials, mason& labour Actually we are in need of Rs 3,87,000 to finish the balance work. All these exterior and interior plastering work will be finished with in this  week.

     These pictures were taken end of January 2006.

Children are about to go to school (one batch of children)
 

 Girls Home Nilaveli

There are 67 war & Tsunami victims girls who are staying at the Girls home Nilaveli. There are 04 Tsunami children have been supported by the effort of mission Rainbow. This is a tremendous of support and the help for unfortunate children to become good citizen of God’s children. Mission Rainbow also supplied 40 mosquito nets 40 trunks for them to keep their clothes and other things safely.   

Children with New Reverend at nilaveli Girls home

Need to be addressed at Girls home Nilaveli

This children home also in need of vocational training center to learn sewing, computer literacy and cake& flower making. Present building facilities are not enough to carry out these activities. Therefore we are hoping to build 18 feet x 45 feet building with glass fittings for these purposes. As a church we can find from various source 1, 25,000/= for this building. But the total cost is 4,16,000/=. We shall be grateful to you if could kindly find financial assistance to finish this target.

Special helps to Tsunami victims families  

Due to the Tsunami disaster at verugal muhathuwaram & kalldy village, we have lost 17 members in the church in that respective area. When these things Mission Rainbow came to know it they immediately act on it and decided to help five families in different levels. Those financial helps have played very important role on their life. Mission Rainbow not only engaged in prayers, seminars and spiritual meetings, but also to addressed their need at that time.
One of our blind worker received motor cycles from Dr.Timothy to enriched mission of God in difficult area. We are also thankful to world concern (came to know them through Mission Rainbow) to provided things to put up 63 temporary shelters at kallady village to strengthen the God’s mission in that area.  

Special Thanks

At finally on behalf of the Methodist church Tricomalee I extend my thanks and gratitude to you and your committee members for the support which have been given to us. One thing personally I like to say that Mission Rainbow has played vital role in the life Methodist church Trincomalee. Special thanks to, Loni uncle, Monica aunty, Kishan de Silva, Pastor Neil, Dr.Timothy and Dr.Duncan.