Love for Malawi
Take my life and let it be, consecrated Lord to Thee...take my hands and let them move, at the impulse of Thy love

Hi! My name is Sarah. In this website you'll find out about my journey before and my time in Ntcheu, Malawi. If you need something to inspire and encourage you daily, you're in the right place!

God wants us all to live a life marked by His greatness, and with an attitude of, "Here I am, use me." With a heart like that, He can take the most minute, incapable individual and cause power and incredibility to flow through their life. Because it is not the smallness of human might that accomplishes anything, but the power of a limitless God that can make ALL things come to pass.

I grew up as a quiet, timid, home-body who was like a bug under a leaf! And then God pulled the leaf away, and put me in situations that scared me to death! But in each situation God did something great. Often I'd crawl back under the leaf, and soon enough God would yank it away again and put me into an even scarier situation! Once again, He'd astound me. Situation by situation my confidence and faith grew. I learned to live without the leaf! And it was so good!

I have few years to my age, but God has filled my young life with great things. God's great power has allowed me to minister to crowds of children, talk a friend out of suicide, bring hope to abused and unloved youth, share Jesus in public school systems, witness to street gang members, and bring the gospel and salvation to university campuses. Things I thought I couldn't do, but now have the confidence that God can do!

By placing me in situations requiring great faith, God has shown me that there is NOTHING He can't do. He speaks and it happens. God has called me to go into missions, and I am confident He'll do great things in Malawi. May He also speak big things into your life, and may you confidently say "YES."

GO??  Why ME?!!!

 So you want to do something great with your life, and know God's will...but you just feel so afraid! I mean, why would God want you to do something big...you're inexperienced, timid, unorganized, insecure, always make mistakes, can't speak in front of people if your life depended on it, and just plain don't see how it could work out.

We all have fears, and many come to the end of their lives realizing that fear kept them from doing what they should have. As I've been preparing for missions, I've been surprised to find out that people I admire and thought had it all together....actually have many fears and insecurities. Many have opened up to me, and shared the struggle they have been experiencing as they consider what God may want them to do.

Fear is real, and it creeps up on the most confident of people. Satan uses it to hold us back. The question is, how will YOU face fear?

People have said to me, "Sarah, you are so bold to dare and go into missions! I really admire you!" I laugh inside whenever I hear this. Because I still face fear everyday as I think of being a missionary. If only these admiring people knew me as a kid and teen. I was the SHYEST girl ever! I remember sitting in groups during icebreakers, and having a sick feeling inside of me while I waited for my turn to speak. When it was my turn, I'd be bright red, and choke over my words. All through my growing up years, I really doubted myself. God gave me glimpses of His calling for me, and I'd just daydream while thinking in my head, "I could never do it for real."

When God asked me to be a teacher, I thought He'd gone mad! Didn't He know that I didn't dig public speaking? Why did He want to stick me into a career where I'd spend whole days in front of people? Geesh. God is NOT thinking.

But somehow, when I started teaching, I WASN'T afraid of being in front of the class...in fact, I loved it! Why this sudden change? Was it me? NO! It was Christ in me. Period.

God's word says it all. James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? 1 Cor. 1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. Matt. 10:19-20 Do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given to you in that hour what you are to say. For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. 1 Cor. 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain...yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

AND I LOVE THIS ONE!!

Ps. 139:16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were ALL written the days that were ORDAINED for me, when as yet there was not one of them.

God has a plan for YOU. Only YOU can do it. And you CAN do it, because GOD is the one who is doing it THROUGH YOU.

FEAR NOT! GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO!

 (See Bio to find out more about me)