Coffee with Sarah Are

Sarah Are is about to graduate from Columbia Theological Seminary
near Atlanta, Georgia and relocate to Dallas, Texas! Sarah's
courage to move as she answers her calls brought her through my
own Richmond, Virginia for a summer while she completed her
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and where she reconnected with
her undergraduate alma mater, Virginia Commonwealth University.
With that same courage and the belief that God finds us all
in various ways, Sarah helped launch a ministry called
Sanctified Art with the mission of bringing worship and
art together.


The Are family, Sarah included, are storytellers. For that
reason, at the end of this interview you will surely have a new
appreciation of communion and you will know a certain four
things. I am quite excited myself at the idea of spreading this
family story of four things, even just among our mutual friends
that she mentioned. I know that those friends (Amanda Hill, Scott
Biggers, Laura Kelly, Daniel Burch, Matthew White, and Nathanael
Blessington) will not be able to resist listening to this
interview and retelling Sarah's stories in their ministries,
which will certainly reach thousands of people. I will let the
storyteller tell her own stories in the episode but I will
pen the four things for listeners.
I am responsible for myself. Every decision has a consequence.
I am baptized. I am loved.

Sarah, thank you for being a friend to the podcast. Thanks for
being so honest, vulnerable, strong and straight-up being
yourself.
Links:

Sponsor: United Faith Leaders


Sanctified Art


Sarah's Website


Sarah's College Vegetarian Food Blog "A Rented Kitchen"


Coe College


Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)


Columbia Theological Seminary


Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Designated Pastor for
Youth and Young Adults (as of July 2017)


Morningside Presbyterian Church (Interim Director of Youth
Ministries at the time of the interview)


Village Presbyterian Church (father, Rev. Tom Are)


Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church (Overland Park, KS)