"Over the years I and my choir have been blessed by some of your songs,
and have used them in our worship. I am also a composer
and over many years have written many songs for my choir - to God be the Glory -
and have not sought for material benefit from them. 

We've used a number of New Hope Music songs in the past: 
"He Shall Be Called"... 'The Baby Of Bethlehem' is a personal favourite... 
 
My choir sang your wonderful song, "You Gave Us Hope" in our Christmas Morning service
last year (2008) and I am attaching an MP3 of it for your interest...
I took the liberty (forgive me!!) of slightly changing the harmonies and
adding a couple of extra lines here and there - but, it IS your song!
The backup band (basically me on keyboard and one of the kids from
the Sunday School on drums) is a little, ummm...well, let's just say that
we're not ready to tour, just yet! But the choir sang their hearts out -
they are mostly over 60 years old (picture attached) and I've led them for the last
30 years at my church...which makes me...well...let's just say I am in my
late 50's! Quite a journey we've had over that time...as I started out in my twenties as
a temporary replacement for the retired choirmaster...and just...stayed!
So, some of the choir members that are now retirement age, I've know since THEIR 30's and 40's...
God is great...He led me there...and I've prayerfully tried to do His will over the years. 
 
Last year was our church's 100th anniversary (St. Clair Avenue Baptist Church - Toronto),
and we celebrated with a LOT of music! 
 
We have a 1920's pipe organ which I play (sparingly) for some hymns, but usually use my trusty Yamaha PSR-2000 for the rest of the music and the P&W... 
 
I wrote a song called 'Come To The Manger' (Adrian Vereeulen-Miller has one, I see, too!) for my choir for last Christmas...
I guess the themes for Christmas songs are often similar and therefore titles can be as well!...
 
Please keep up the wonderful work. Many, many people have enjoyed
and used your wonderful songs to further the work of Christ -
and I know that we look forward to trying out new songs of yours in the future... 
 
As for me, I also continue to compose (over 500 songs and choruses, myself!)
Most don't see the light of day outside my church although I have had some sung
at revivals and as far away as India, Russia and Africa. Some of my shorter choruses
and songs are on the FreePraiseAndWorship site - here: 
 
http://freepraiseandworship.org/cgi-bin/files/list/7739.html 
 
God bless, and I hope we can keep in touch... 
 
Brian James Wallace (from Toronto, Canada)