Sarah is a ministry trainer, consultant, and coach based in Providence, RI. With over 20 years of experience in church and parachurch ministry, she is passionate about equipping leaders--from parents to church planters and everyone in between--to flourish in their unique callings and contexts.

Sarah began her ministry career with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, serving as a Campus Staff Member and Area Director for over a decade. She then spent five years as Executive Pastor of Sanctuary Church in Providence, and has overseen Church Planter Training for the Evangelical Covenant Church since 2020. More recently, Sarah launched Family Discipleship Labs, a consulting practice that helps churches reimagine family ministry with a dedicated emphasis on equipping parents.

Sarah is the author of Teach Your Children Well: A Step-by-Step Guide for Family Discipleship, winner of Christianity Today's Book Award in the Marriage and Family category. Her new book, Parenting Upstream: Raising Jesus Followers in a Post-Christian World, releases with InterVarsity Press in 2027.

TRAINING

Sarah has extensive experience with instructional design, training execution, and cohort design and facilitation for groups ranging from 5 to 500. Audiences have included: college students, church leaders, established pastors, church planters, movement leaders, national ministry leadership teams—and more. Topics have included: leadership skills, leadership development, evangelism, small groups + discipleship strategy, coaching technique, prayer ministry, the spiritual formation of children, fund  development—and more. She enjoys developing training tools, handouts, workbooks, presentations, reproducible curricula, and more.  

CONSULTING

With experience in hiring, supervision, system design, strategic planning, and general management, Sarah serves as a consultant to churches and leadership teams, helping them to align their systems and programs for ministry effectiveness and fruitfulness.

COACHING

Sarah is a Mastery-Level trained coach, proficient in both the GROW and COACH models of coaching. She coaches pastors, church planters, family ministry pastors, children's ministry teams, parents, and ministry leaders of all types.

Sarah graduated from Brown University in 2003.