Jim & Sarah Sumner speak together at marriage retreats, discipleship gatherings, and redemptive testimony events.
Now in their 30th year of marriage, the Sumners speak candidly about the real work of faithfulness. They do not present marriage as easy or automatic, but as a lifelong process of learning to listen, forgive, repair, and grow together as two becoming one. Their teaching reflects the wisdom of God’s design for biblical headship that honors the moral agency and human responsibility of both husband and wife.
Sarah and Jim each carry a personal testimony shaped by uncertainty and testing—yet ultimately eclipsed by God’s initiative and astonishing grace. Their stories bear witness to profound disruption followed by unmistakable evidence of God’s sovereign timing and unchanging love.
We are so grateful that Jim and Sarah came to lead our recent Couples Enrichment event at Bridges Community Church. As a pastor, I so appreciate their commitment and passion for God’s Word, their transparency and candor, how they model as a couple what they teach, and also the way that they take the time to really get to know, listen to, and pray with others. We praise God for their ministry and for the blessing that they both are to the Body of Christ.
-Steve Durand, Pastor of Family Ministries
