Sharon Griffith – the woman behind this incredible ministry
While working in the supply room at Samaritan Hospital, which was located on the Northwest Nazarene College campus, Sharon Griffith saw that many supplies were being discarded that she knew could be used by missionaries in foreign countries. She obtained approval to salvage those supplies and she stored them in a bedroom closet until she had enough to send a box to a missionary. The first box was sent to Larry Edgerton who was in Africa at the time.
Later, she started working for Mercy Medical Center in Nampa and collected supplies from them also. She then moved from the bedroom closet, to Glenn and Mary Wardlaw’s basement, to the basement at College Church of the Nazarene in Nampa and from there, through a few other locations to the current location on S. Powerline Road in Nampa.
In 1992 the first large shipment was sent. Lloyd Lumber donated the wood to build the 4 x 4 x 5 crate holding 750 lbs of medical supplies, that was trucked overland to the port and sent to the Kudjip Hospital in Papua New Guinea.
You can still find Sharon volunteering with her Husband Dan, just about any time that the doors are open at the ministry center of Hands of Hope Northwest.