Sarah Miles
Sarah Miles serves with Rahab Uganda in Kampala, Uganda. RahabUganda is a fully supported Ugandan ministry that works to empower one girl at a time who has been sexually exploited or trafficked. Ever since Sarah was a child, her heart has always been in Africa…. She never knew God’s plan aligned with her heart until she became a Christian.
Sarah is a native of Colorado and has one daughter and two granddaughters. She has volunteered with several ministries at her home church, Timberline Church, Fort Collins, Colorado. She has served three years with Nine70, the young adults ministry, as a missions director. While there she co-lead trips to Haiti, Beach Reach in South Padre, TX, and local outreaches. She has served on the mission board for the last three years. Sarah felt God’s call to help in women’s ministry and started volunteering with U COUNT, an anti-human trafficking ministry.
What prompted her to be involved in ministry was her first mission trip to Rwanda in 2008. It changed her life and she knew she would be led back to Africa. In 2011 she returned, this time to Uganda, and found a vision was starting to take shape as to how God was going to use her.
In 2013 after really hearing Gods call, Sarah quit her job. She felt she could no longer stand by doing nothing. During the transition time of getting ready to leave to work with street children, a local friend of hers was trafficked and the problem hit home for Sarah. She knew she was called to Africa, she just wasn’t sure why her calling was changing. The need to work with girls who had been trafficked grew stronger and stronger. It was during a time of reflection and forgiveness in her own life that she realized the past experiences, all the hard stuff she had faced, was something she could relate to the trafficked girls with.
Her six-month stay in 2013 in Uganda was a time of searching and listening to God. Through a divine appointment caused by missing a bus and meeting a friend of the directors of Rahab Uganda, she was introduced to Rahab Uganda and started volunteering and just knew this was the right place for her. God gave her the clarification of working with these amazing young women.
Sarah’s training has been through Hands that Heal and Train the Trainer as well as on the ground, tending to the needs of the people she serves. She will be going to Greece to conduct local outreaches in brothels prior to returning to Uganda. Sarah’s role in Uganda will be to work at the drop-in center processing the girls coming into Rahab Uganda. She will also help coordinate efforts to make Rahab Uganda sustainable.