Rainbow Network to Build 25 New Homes in Nicaragua Click Here for Full Story and Video From KY3 News By Dustin Hodges, KY3 News dhodges@ky3.com 6:05 a.m. CDT, April 10, 2013 SPRINGFIELD, Mo – Nearly two dozen members from Springfield churches are in Nicaragua this week helping the Rainbow Network move families into 25 new [...]
Rainbow Network to Build 25 New Homes in Nicaragua Click Here for Full Story and Video From KOLR10 News SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The Rainbow Network, a faith-based charity based in Springfield, is about to add 25 new homes to impoverished families in Nicaragua. The organization works with about 100 local churches raising money to build concrete structures that offer protection [...]
Published in the Springfield News-Leader Written by Dr. Roger Ray February 22, 2013 click here to view the original article on News-Leader.com I trust that he was joking, mostly, when my construction manager in the 1970s was not happy with how much we were getting done. He would tell us, “I drove two stakes in the ground [...]
Pictured left to right during yesterday’s event are Jay Guffey, Rainbow Network Board Chair; Keith Jaspers, Founder & President; Laura Fregin, Pastor of National Avenue Christian Church; and Brad Wadle, National Avenue Outreach Committee & Rainbow Board Member. National Avenue Christian Church (NACC) in Springfield yesterday presented a $25,000 check to The Rainbow Network, initiating [...]
The summer container has arrived in Nicaragua and the opportunities it held are already transforming lives! Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy. Above, students from the cottage school in La Laguna, San Ramón show off their new Spanish-language picture books with pride. El Paraíso school also received education materials – 186 picture [...]
Recently, Rainbow Network sent a container to Nicaragua. If you’re not familiar with containers, they are giant, stackable metal boxes that can be packed full of goods and easily transferred between trucks, ships, and rail to reach their destination. Some Rainbow Network supporters, however, are quite familiar with containers; it takes a small army to [...]
With summer just around the corner, warm evenings outside are often interrupted by the buzz of unwanted guests; mosquitoes, along with their partners in crime, ticks and fleas, are familiar foes in the U.S. Here, West Nile and Lyme Disease exist, but afflict few compared to the density of parasite-related afflictions in Central America. Near [...]
During the past week, Rainbow Network founder & president Keith Jaspers has been traveling with two separate groups in Nicaragua. The first, from tornado-ravaged Joplin, MO, is La Rosas village partner St. Paul’s United Methodist Church. Their team of five people spent several days in that village, meeting sponsored students, delivering donated supplies, and helping [...]
Rainbow Network has a new Student Sponsorship sheet; open it up and take a look! The new sheet’s benefits are twofold; it makes it easier for you to share students with friends and family as well as streamlining our office’s tracking process for unsponsored students. The sheet includes 8 students, a description of our education [...]
Upon returning from his most recent trip to Nicaragua, Keith was excited to share success stories and words of thanks from people impacted by Rainbow Network programs. One such story is that of Eunice, a 29 year old woman living in the Nagarote network. When Rainbow arrived in her community 12 years ago, Eunice [...]
