On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am pleased to announce that Amanda Shaw has joined our Threefold staff team.  Amanda had assumed her responsibilities as our new Community Development Coordinator.  We are excited to have Amanda join the team to help us ensure that the projects we undertake are responding most effectively to local needs and support the overall mission of Threefold in building community empowering communities and following faithfully the example of Jesus.  In addition Amanda will help to build short term teams that will travel to Nicaragua in fulfillment of our mission.  As you will read in her bio, Amanda is no stranger to Threefold.  We welcome her to her new responsibilities on staff.