Through her story of childhood brokenness, years of striving to be seen and loved, and the redemption she found in God, Sara helps people receive God as Father, rest in His love, and become secure in their identity as His beloved children.
God meets us in our brokenness, gives us a secure place to belong, and redeems even the most painful parts of our story.
The youngest of six children, Sara grew up in a home affected by alcoholism and family brokenness. At nine, she entered a children’s home and later lived in a foster home. Her heart longed for love, acceptance, and a place to belong, and she learned to strive, perform, and please others in an effort to secure what her heart needed.
Through faith in Jesus, Sara came to know God as Father. After years of disappointment and heartbreak, she began to understand her place as His daughter and surrendered to the only Love that could truly secure her. It was a love she did not have to earn. It had been there all along. It was hers to receive.
Instead of running from her past or simply trying to move on, Sara began to understand that healing required honesty. Resting in the Father’s love gave her the courage to go back, face what was real, and be honest about her story, who her mother and father were, what had happened in her family, and what was true in her own heart.
As she became more secure in her place in God’s family, she began to see her family from God’s perspective. She could understand her parents more clearly, forgive what had hurt her, love more freely, and trust God with the relationships she could never repair on her own. As God healed what had been broken in her, He also began restoring what had been broken within her family.
Sara has always loved her family. Relationships can still be complicated, but she no longer looks to them to secure what only God can give. She rests in knowing who she belongs to.
She is His.
Today, Sara speaks with warmth, energy, and vulnerability, helping others get honest about the hurts beneath their patterns, bring them into God’s light, and discover who they are in Christ.
A University of South Carolina graduate and former collegiate athlete in basketball and cross country/track, Sara began her career as a high school teacher and coach before following God’s call to speak and preach the gospel. She serves on three boards and advocates for several ministries, with a heart for people who feel overlooked. Whether in a group home or a grocery store, she wants people to feel seen and know the love God has for them. Time with the Father through prayer, silence, and solitude helps her serve from a place of rest.
A joyful learner at heart, Sara loves reading and writing and is finishing her first book. She enjoys running, hiking with her husband, and long walks with her girlfriends. Prayer gardens and the beach are her favorite places to retreat. Her family enjoys traveling and sporting events together. Sara delights in the life God has redeemed through Jesus, with hope that her children will carry forward a new family legacy rooted in His love, lighting the way for generations to come.
Sara speaks and ministers to students and adults, helping them know God personally, rest in His love, and navigate broken relationships with truth, grace, and forgiveness. She encourages audiences to approach God and one another in a posture of humility and honesty, receiving His grace and extending it to others. Each message is Scripture centered, story driven, and shaped for the people gathered.
Sara shares the gospel with students from all backgrounds, showing how Jesus can redeem their lives and inviting them to follow Him wholeheartedly and come to know His truth for themselves.
Messages of vulnerability, forgiveness, reconciliation, intimacy with God, and freedom from striving for love and approval, with truth that reaches marriage, family, and our closest relationships.
Encouraging young people in care and adults facing hardship to place their hope in Jesus and discover that their beginnings do not have to determine their future. Sara also strengthens and encourages the caregivers, mentors, and ministry teams who walk alongside them.
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 25:40, NIV
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“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations… and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Matthew 28:19–20, NIV
Discipleship is a relational journey of seeking God, learning His Word, asking honest questions, and applying gospel truth to everyday life. It is walking alongside someone as faith becomes personal, practiced, and deeply rooted.
Sara comes alongside students and women who want to grow in their relationship with God, helping them get honest about their stories, recognize the hurts and patterns that still shape them, bring those places into God’s light, receive God personally as Father, renew their minds, and take faithful steps forward.
Many people come to Christ yet still struggle to rest in the Father's love. As God becomes our source of love and security, we are freed from striving and able to love others with greater mercy and grace, including within marriage, family, and the relationships closest to us.
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Sara is currently finishing her memoir, an honest story of heartbreak and disappointment. As a little girl who lost hope when her family fell apart, she discovered a God who came for her and offered her Himself. Through Jesus, she came to know the Father’s love, where her heart found a home and was made whole. It is a story of how God’s love and grace brought healing to her heart and family.
Father, I pray that the person reading these words would come to know the love You have for them through Jesus. Meet them in their longing, their questions, and the places they keep hidden. Help them receive the love they could never earn and rest in the joy of belonging to You.
Root them deeply in Your love. Give them courage to walk in Your truth, grace to forgive, and hope for what You are redeeming in their lives. May they know You as the perfect Father and learn to live as Your deeply loved child.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
“Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12, ESV