Sarah Comer (She/Her)
Sarah Comer (she/her) brings a mix of nonprofit know-how, theological curiosity, and deep love for community to the Urban Abbey team. A Nebraska native, Sarah grew up in Lincoln and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Religious Studies from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2009.
After college, Sarah served as a youth director at a small United Methodist church in southeastern Kansas and began discerning a call to ministry. That path took her to the Iliff School of Theology in Denver in 2011, where she eventually shifted focus and earned a Master of Arts in Social Justice and Ethics in 2013. She returned home to Nebraska with a clear calling to serve people at the intersection of faith, justice, and practical care.
Returning to Nebraska, Sarah spent more than seven years working in hunger relief at the Food Bank of Lincoln and the Food Bank for the Heartland. Her work included food assistance outreach, partner support and management, federal contracts and grant administration, government compliance, education, quality control, and data analysis. This experience continues to ground her ministry in real systems, real needs, and the behind-the-scenes work that helps communities thrive. She brings that same systems-savvy, people-first energy into her ministry work today.
Sarah joined the Urban Abbey team in the summer of 2021 and works closely with Rev. Debra across campus and young adult ministry, children’s and youth programming, and adult formation. She also supports the Abbey behind the scenes through data management, grant writing, fund management, and church administration. Her favorite part of the job is helping create a progressive United Methodist community where justice, creativity, and belonging are taken seriously—and joy is never optional.
Outside of the Abbey, Sarah loves spending time with her boyfriend, planning very well-organized road trips (she is an Enneagram 6, after all), reading romantasy novels, baking along with The Great British Bake Off, and cuddling her cat Hazel.
If you’re new to Urban Abbey, Sarah hopes you feel free to come as you are—curious, skeptical, hopeful, or tired—and trusts you’ll find a table with room for you here.