ABOUT SHARON: Sharon wants others to know that she is totally in love with Jesus. She enjoys speaking, writing and teaching about His grace. Her heart’s desire is to know Jesus more intimately and share that knowledge with others. Through trials and blessings, she has learned that there is no end to His mercy, His grace and His faithfulness. There’s simply no better friend than Jesus.
In 2008, she answered God’s calling to begin a women’s ministry called Grace in The Wilderness. She loves to encourage other people, and, through the ministry’s Grace In The Wilderness Newsletters, and various annual Conferences, she and others are challenging women and teen girls to discover Christ in a new and deeper way, who they are in Him and His plan for their lives.
She has been a business owner for the last twenty years. Five years ago, she learned about forgiveness at a new level with the betrayal of a close friend who embezzled from her business and was sent to prison.
Sharon has experienced God’s incredible grace through adversity during breast cancer and melanoma diagnoses and multiple surgeries that have perpetuated a continuing painful nerve illness. Both cancers were stage 1 and she has now been cancer free for four years. Her cancer journey is chronicled at www.caringbridge.org/visit/sharonhawkins.
Recently, she sold a large part of her business as God has prepared her to turn a page in her life and focus more on ministry.
She has been married to the love of her life, Scott Hawkins, for twenty five years and they live in Easley, SC. He is pictured with her in the website banner. When Scott was a little boy it is certain that he did not aspire to be in women’s ministry but that is exactly what has happened. He has faithfully supported and served alongside Sharon and been a part of the media ministry since GITW’s inception seven years ago.
She is quick to tell others that she has two rocks in her life. God is her Big Rock and Scott is her little rock. She leans on both regularly and could not do without either of them. 
Sharon is the mother of two very special young men, Taylor (21), a Senior at Anderson University, and Bradley (15), a Freshman at Pickens High School. She loves spending time with them and counts it a precious blessing to be the mother of boys.
With God’s amazing provision and the support of her wonderful family and friends, Sharon is not only surviving her wilderness one day at a time, but finding that life is a beautiful adventure and that God’s grace is more than sufficient for anything we face.
FROM SHARON’S HEART:
“My favorite verse is Hebrews 10:23: Let us hold unswervingly to the hope that we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
Life should not be about making much about us but about making much about the Great I Am, Jesus.
Keeping the faith doesn’t mean to keep it to ourselves.
When we pray, God hears more than we say, answers more than we ask, gives more than we imagine in His time and in His way.
The tighter I cling to Him, the more I realize that it’s His grasp that makes the difference, not mine.
Finally, words to live by from the best Pastor in the world, Stuart Houston (my Pastor): “Be thankful, love Jesus, and commit to kindness.”
