Speaker · Writer · Discipleship Mentor

Bringing hearts home to God.

Make God all you want.
Experience all you need.

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.

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From striving to be loved to resting in the Father's love.

The heart of the ministry

God meets us in our brokenness, gives us a secure place to belong, and redeems even the most painful parts of our story.

Sara walking through the neighborhood where her story began

From darkness into light

A story of longing, belonging, and the love that came for her.

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. She learned early to strive, perform, and please others in an effort to secure the love her heart needed.

Through Jesus, Sara came to know God not only as Savior, but as Father. She discovered that the love she had spent her life striving for could never be earned. In the Father, it was already hers to receive. As striving gave way to rest, His love became the secure home she had been searching for and the source from which forgiveness, reconciliation, and a different future became possible.

“Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.” Psalm 27:10

About Sara

Honest stories. Gospel hope. A life being redeemed.

Sara M. Jenkins knows what it is to spend years striving to be chosen, accepted, and secure. Through her own journey from childhood brokenness to belonging, she came to know God not only as Savior, but as Father, and learned to rest in a love she did not have to earn.

Today, Sara speaks with warmth, energy, and vulnerability, helping others recognize the hurt beneath their patterns and discover who they are in Christ. Through honest storytelling and gospel centered truth, she speaks to struggles with shame, comparison, approval, performance, bitterness, and worth.

A former teacher, coach, and collegiate athlete, Sara connects naturally with students and adults alike. Beyond the stage, she disciples and mentors students and women from all backgrounds, speaks in group homes, and encourages those entrusted with caring for vulnerable children. She is a University of South Carolina graduate, wife, mother of two, and is currently finishing her memoir.

Former teacher and coachLady Gamecocks basketballAll SEC cross countryBible certificate

Ministries Sara serves and advocates for

One story. Different rooms. The same gospel hope.

Sara speaks, ministers, and advocates in places where people are longing to know they are seen, loved, and not defined by their past. Each message is Scripture centered, story driven, and shaped for the people gathered.

Schools and FCA

Identity beyond approval

Helping students from all backgrounds find freedom from shame, comparison, and performance, practice forgiveness, and root their worth in Christ.

Churches and women's groups

Resting in the Father's love

Messages of vulnerability, forgiveness, reconciliation, intimacy with God, and freedom from striving, with truth that reaches marriage, family, and our closest relationships.

Sara walking through a neighborhood connected to her childhood

Group homes and foster care

Hope for every story

Encouraging young people in care and the workers, house parents, mentors, and leaders who walk beside them.

Signature messages

Truth that reaches the heart.

Sara adapts each message to the setting while keeping the gospel and the transforming love of God at the center.

Root Systems

Getting honest about the childhood wounds and old identities beneath our patterns so we can become rooted in Christ and live from who we are in Him.

Freedom From Shame

Stop hiding and pretending by bringing shame into the light, receiving God’s grace, and embracing your true self in Christ.

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

A story of gospel grace and mercy and God's power to redeem broken relationships, including the wounds we carry in marriage and family.

Intimacy With God

Moving beyond knowing about God to knowing Him personally and learning to remain in His presence and love.

Approval Value and Worth

Finding lasting acceptance in God rather than comparison, performance, achievement, or the opinions of others.

Loving With God's Love

Serving vulnerable young people with truth, compassion, consistency, and the transforming love of the gospel.

Discipleship and gospel rest

Walking with others along the way of Jesus.

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 from all backgrounds who want to grow in their relationship with God, helping them bring hidden hurts into the light, receive God personally as Father, renew their minds, and take faithful steps forward. She shares Scripture, encouragement, and wisdom from her own journey while always pointing people back to Jesus.

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 reading Scripture in a quiet moment

An open Bible with handwritten notes and flowers

Memoir in progress

A Journey from Longing to Belonging.

Sara is currently finishing her memoir, an honest story of striving to be loved, receiving God as Father, and discovering that in His love, our hearts find their home and are made whole.

Speaking and discipleship

Invite Sara to walk alongside your community.

To invite Sara to speak at a school, FCA, church, women's gathering, group home, foster care agency, or ministry event, or to ask about personal discipleship, choose an option below.

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Your past does not have the final word.

Sara brings a message of resilient hope to schools, churches, women's gatherings, group homes, foster care agencies, and ministry teams.

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Make God all you want. Experience all you need.