Leadership

Mother Sara is delighted to have been chosen to serve as the 9th Rector. She began working here on January 2nd, 2024. Before this, she served as Senior Associate Rector at St. Mary’s in Arlington, VA where she had clergy oversight of Pastoral Care, Spiritual Formation, and the relationship with the Santa Maria congregation. She served as Assistant to the Rector at Saint Mary’s, High Point, North Carolina from 2010 to 2016, and then as Rector of Holy Trinity in Oxford, Ohio from 2016 to 2020. At Holy Trinity, she led the outreach to students at Miami University, leading a Bible study for them. Mother Sara completed her Master of Divinity degree at Virginia Theological Seminary in 2010. She and her husband David, a music professor and musician, met in Bolivia where they served as church-planting missionaries with the Anglican Church. They have one adult son, Steven who lives in Ohio. 

Before her callings as a missionary and later as a priest, Mother Sara was a teacher of Modern Languages in England where she grew up in the county of Surrey. She is fluent in French and Spanish, speaks some German, and knows Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Mother Sara loves swimming and walking in nature with her husband, meeting with friends, watching movies, as well as reading novels and singing! She is deeply thankful for the All Souls congregation!