December 15, 2006

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Board of Sharing Hope, I would like to take this opportunity to wish each of you a wonderful Christmas Season and New Year 2007. We wish to also thank each of you who were involved in one way or another in one or more of our ministries this past year. Your partnership is very important and encourages us as we continue to seek to apply the message of Ephesians quoted above.

During the past month, we have completed five new color brochures, which we will eventually have available upon our web site as well. If you have visited our new web site recently, you will see that it is under construction and not yet functional. We hope to complete this activity in the next months. The five brochures completed are:

1. A General Sharing Hope International Brochure, which provides a brief report of the activities undertaken through the end of this year.

2. Help Rebuild Southern Sudan, Abwong Basic Educational Learning Center

3. Drip Irrigation & Horticulture Production in Southern Madagascar

4. Northern Haiti Health Ministry: Haut-Limbé Ebenezer Community Clinic

5. Groupe Yentemma, Burkina Faso

With this letter, you will be receiving a copy of the General Brochure. Should you be interested in receiving a copy of one of the others, we can send this to you either by hardcopy or by email. Just let us know of your interest, and how you would like to receive it.

We believe in developing long-term commitments to programs, and becoming personally involved in every way possible. We would very much like to encourage you to consider partnering with a small group of friends or a church group to engage in becoming directly involved with at least one of these activities – through prayer support, possibly through volunteering yourself in some aspect of the program as it evolves, through financial support. We will help you to develop direct links with the people concerned, and will send you regular updates from these programs as they communicate with us.

One of the exciting ministries that has developed this year has been support to a SIM International outreach activity in Southern Sudan, for which we receive regular updates we could share with you, described in the 2^nd brochure mentioned above. We are also becoming engaged for the first time in Burkina Faso. After three years of program support to the Chinese Covenant Churches in Taiwan, through more than 70 volunteers sent in training of conversational English to elementary and middle school children there, Covenant World Missions will this year be taking the lead in organizing this growing program. It has been a great privilege for Sharing Hope to be able to assist in the launching of this important effort. Activities at the Ebenezer Clinic in Haiti have progressed well – expanding to additional satellite clinics - and Rachael Downing expects to return there for several months this summer to work with Dr. Manno. We also hope to support efforts of Dr. Manno this coming year as he visits different areas of the States to raise awareness of these efforts and the needs.

I would like to introduce to you the current Board of Directors of Sharing Hope. The Chairman of the Board is Mr. Loren Morschen, an architect, who has worked professionally in Madagascar for a number of years and currently operates a firm in Minneapolis. Our vice-chair and Financial Secretary is Mr. Bernard Glover, owner of Glover Insurance Agency in the Twin Cities. Rev. Dennis Carlson, a Twin City Covenant pastor, with long term missionary experience in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Zaire, serves as our Secretary. We expect to be adding at least two additional members to our board this year. Their support and council over this past year has been valuable indeed!

May the coming year be one of fulfillment and blessing to each of you and your families.

Richard Swanson

Director