Tucker joined the ServingLeaders team in 2021 after spending the previous five years as the Ministry Director for Christian Union at the University of Pennsylvania. Serving as a Chaplain at Penn provided an opportunity to disciple, train, and connect young Christian leaders for a lifetime of ministry. During this time, Tucker also served as a College Pastor and Teacher at City Line Church in Bala Cynwyd.

Prior to coming to the Philadelphia area, Tucker served as the Pastor at Denver Baptist Church (Iowa) for seven years. Tucker’s heart for the Church and for church leaders was enhanced through the relationships nurtured during this season of ministry. His passion remains to serve Christian leaders both in the local church and parachurch ministries.

Tucker’s role as Ministry Director of our Willow Grove Hub is an important step in our plans to continue expanding the capacity and geographic reach of ServingLeaders through new “Mission Hubs.” Seeing the need for relational proximity, we want to plant Hubs in new geographic regions with Ministry Directors who will each be a leader of leaders, on the ground connecting, equipping, and encouraging pastors and ministry leaders; a shepherd of shepherds, who will pursue and befriend leaders while developing and leading a team of ministry and counseling staff that can walk alongside leaders and shepherd their hearts.

Tucker earned a BA in English literature from the University of Northern Iowa, a Juris Doctorate from Drake University Law School, and an MDiv at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.

Tucker and his wife of a quarter century, Marchelle, are Iowa natives but happily count Philadelphia as home. The Else’s (with their four kids) reside in Ardmore with their oldest two attending university in West Philadelphia. Tucker enjoys reading, watching college football, drinking coffee with his oldest daughter, going on adventures with his boys, and surfing with his youngest daughter. Tucker is also working on his first novel.

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Sarah is a bilingual counselor (English & Spanish) primarily focused on treating individuals who are struggling with the effects of trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and cultural difficulties.

She received her Master’s Degree in Christian Counseling from Cairn University where she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Psychology as the Director of Practicums and Internships. There she taught Helping Skills, Individual Assessment & Psychopathology, Grief & Trauma, Group Discipleship and Sport Psychology.

While at Cairn, Sarah also worked for six years (2010-2016) in the college and community counseling center primarily with young adults and adults struggling with a wide variety mental health issues: anxiety, depression, panic disorder, dissociative disorder, sexual addiction, trauma, grief, etc.

During the summer of 2019 Sarah moved to Mexico where she provided online counseling through ServingLeaders and supported pastors, missionaries, counselors and lay people in the city of Puebla. In 2022 she married a Boriqua and moved to Puerto Rico where her husband lives. She now provides online counseling from her home in Puerto Rico, where she continues to engage in cross-cultural ministry and train missionaries in Mexico remotely. Her husband is a Pastor of a small Church and so she also assists him in his ministry there as well.

Sarah has primarily focused on treating individuals who are struggling with the effects of trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and cultural difficulties and doing so from a Gospel-centered perspective. She is very passionate about trauma treatment, helping individuals work through wounds from their childhood, and has a heart for individuals who have experienced ethnic and race-based traumatic stress.

In addition to continually reading books on the treatment of various presenting problems in counseling, Sarah has received training in trauma treatment, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is a qualified administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory and Prepare and Enrich premarital and marriage assessment tool.

Sarah is deeply passionate about being an active member of the body of Christ. Due to her passion for biblical community, Sarah has led trainings on vulnerability for small group leaders, led small groups, participated in discussions on diversity and taught the Word at women’s mini-retreats. She also loves to do inductive Bible study and to help others learn to do the same.

When Sarah isn’t counseling, teaching, or engaging in ministry, she enjoys caring for her plants, taking her dog for walks, trying new foods, reading, learning new things and hanging out with her husband and friends.

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