Sarah Jakes Roberts in 2026: Her Ministry, Latest Work and Dallas–Fort Worth Roots
Sarah Jakes Roberts’s influence reaches well beyond a viral sermon. She is a pastor, author, speaker and the founder of Woman Evolve, with a ministry story that runs through family legacy, public vulnerability, publishing, women’s gatherings and the Dallas–Fort Worth faith community. For readers here in North Texas, there is a local story behind the national platform: Dallas is where she now shares senior pastoral leadership, and Arlington has hosted major chapters of Woman Evolve’s growth.
Who Is Sarah Jakes Roberts? Her Father, Mother and Husband
Sarah is the daughter of Bishop T.D. Jakes and Serita Jakes. Her father founded The Potter’s House in Dallas in 1996 and became internationally known through preaching, books, broadcasting and women’s ministry. Serita is also part of that ministry history; the church identifies her as its founding first lady. Their daughter grew into public leadership within a family whose faith work was already highly visible.
Sarah’s husband is pastor and author Touré Roberts. They lead The Potter’s House of Dallas together as co-senior pastors. Their ministry history also includes ONE | A Potter’s House Church in Los Angeles. The Dallas church’s official transition announcement explains that they moved from Los Angeles to Dallas in 2022 as part of a longer leadership plan, before becoming assistant pastors in 2023.
Those relationships provide essential context, but Sarah’s own public story deserves attention too. Her early writing addressed the pressure of being a well-known preacher’s daughter while navigating teen motherhood, a painful relationship history and the work of rebuilding faith and confidence. Her 2014 memoir, Lost and Found: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life, brought that story to readers. Baker Publishing Group’s contemporary author biography already described her as overseeing women’s ministry at The Potter’s House of Dallas and living in the DFW area.
That early record matters because her ministry did not begin with a stadium conference or a senior pastoral title. Writing, testimony and women’s ministry were part of the work years earlier. Her willingness to speak about a complicated past gives readers a way into the message: a life can contain difficult chapters without losing the possibility of purpose.
How Her Ministry Developed: A Timeline of Key Milestones
2014: Lost and Found introduced her testimony in book form. This is an early, documented marker of her public work, rather than a claim that all of her ministry began that year.
2017: Sarah founded Woman Evolve, according to the movement’s 2022 announcement. Its purpose centered on helping women recognize their possibilities and move beyond limits. The founding date of the movement should be distinguished from later outreach initiatives and organizational milestones.
2021: Woman Evolve: Break Up with Your Fears and Revolutionize Your Life expanded the message through a widely recognized book. The book and the organization share a name, but the movement was already underway before the book appeared.
2022: At the final Woman, Thou Art Loosed! conference in Atlanta, T.D. Jakes publicly commissioned Sarah to carry forward a new generation of women’s ministry through Woman Evolve. This was a significant public endorsement of work she had already established.
2023–2024: Her Dallas pastoral responsibilities grew, while Woman Evolve’s conference footprint included Arlington. Globe Life Field’s official calendar confirms that the 2024 gathering ran September 26–28. Power Moves also arrived in 2024, adding another title to her publishing work.
2025–2026: The Potter’s House’s official history records the transition to Touré and Sarah as co-senior pastors in 2025. In 2026, that leadership continues alongside her writing, sermons, podcast and recovery from a serious injury.
Her Dallas–Fort Worth Connection: Dallas Ministry and Arlington Conferences
The clearest current local affiliation is The Potter’s House of Dallas, at 6777 W. Kiest Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75236. Sarah shares senior leadership there with Touré Roberts. The church’s published schedule lists Sunday worship at 10 a.m. Central and Wednesday services at 7 p.m. Central; its official visit and streaming pages provide the latest information.
For people in Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Arlington and surrounding North Texas communities, this makes her ministry accessible through a regional congregation as well as online. The address is in Dallas. Mentioning the broader metroplex describes the audience that can connect with the church; it does not mean Sarah holds a separate pastoral appointment in every DFW city.
Arlington is another documented connection. Woman Evolve’s September 2024 gathering took place at Globe Life Field, the Texas Rangers’ ballpark. Local reporting also documents the conference’s 2023 Arlington edition. These events placed her women’s ministry within a major North Texas venue and brought the movement into the region’s wider cultural calendar.
For Shalena Speaks readers, the local significance is practical. A nationally recognized faith leader is also part of the religious life of Dallas, and her conference history includes a city between Dallas and Fort Worth. Readers can explore her teaching, check the Dallas church calendar and understand the local roots without assuming the next Woman Evolve conference will be in Texas. The currently announced flagship gathering is in Atlanta.
What She Has Been Doing Recently: Fall 2026 Updates
Her recent work includes specific messages that readers can revisit. The Potter’s House’s official on-demand archive lists Move With the Flow, dated September 20, 2026, and Let It Out, dated October 4, 2026, under Sarah Jakes Roberts’s name. These recordings offer a more direct view of her recent ministry than a collection of isolated social media clips.
On September 13, The Potter’s House also celebrated T.D. Jakes’s fifty years in ministry. Religion News Service’s September 14 report covered the Dallas service, where family and church leaders reflected on his influence. Sarah’s participation placed her within a public moment of both gratitude and generational continuity.
The Woman Evolve podcast has continued with new conversations. Its October 28, 2026 episode, Finding Peace Without Giving Up on Your Dreams with Marsai Martin, features the actress, producer and entrepreneur in a discussion framed around ambition, purpose and staying grounded. An October 14 episode, It’s Never Too Late to Start Again with Lisa Knowles-Smith, addresses grief, church hurt and rebuilding. These are dated releases readers can find and listen to, rather than vague references to her being active.
Woman Evolve also promoted a fall 2026 Rogue Route Tour built around Romans 12:2, with teaching, worship and conversation. Individual event listings have carried different statuses, including a canceled San Antonio listing. A tour announcement alone does not establish that every scheduled appearance took place. Readers considering a future event should use the organizer and venue’s current information.
A Different Kind of Strength
There is a particular kind of courage that rarely makes the highlight reel. It is not the confidence of walking onto a brightly lit stage or delivering a memorable sermon to thousands of people. Sometimes courage looks like listening to your doctors, changing plans you hoped to keep, allowing other people to help, and discovering that your work can still have meaning when your body needs rest. That is the compelling story surrounding pastor, author and Woman Evolve founder Sarah Jakes Roberts in 2026.
A Recovery That Changed the Calendar
According to the official Woman Evolve conference information, Roberts suffered a serious accident that caused a fractured neck and multiple herniated discs and required surgery. Her medical team recommended time to recover. The Woman Evolve Conference that had been planned for 2026 was moved to July 29–31, 2027, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Organizers explain that scheduling constraints prevented a suitable fall 2026 gathering. Existing registrations were transferred to the new dates, while Girl Evolve registrations were slated for refunds because some participants might age out. These are operational decisions, but behind them is an important human decision: to take recovery seriously.
The Return to the Pulpit
In August, Charisma reported that Roberts returned to preaching after months away, delivering a message titled 'The Same, But Different.' The sermon considered the resurrection account in John 20. The title itself offers a useful lens through which to understand a season of change. People can return to familiar responsibilities without pretending they are unchanged by what they experienced. A recovery story should never be reduced to a perfect before-and-after transformation, and there is no reason to assume that returning to public ministry means treatment and rehabilitation are finished. The official conference site says Roberts continues making progress while under the guidance of her medical team.
Leadership at The Potter's House
This year is also significant in another way. Sarah Jakes Roberts and her husband, Touré Roberts, continue serving as senior co-pastors of The Potter's House in Dallas following the leadership transition from Bishop T.D. Jakes in 2025. During the September 2026 celebration of Bishop Jakes's fifty years in ministry, Sarah spoke about his legacy continuing into future generations. For a congregation with an internationally recognized founder, succession is not merely a ceremonial handoff. It requires pastoral care, continuity and the ability to build trust across generations. Their leadership is therefore an important ongoing development in American church life.
What Woman Evolve Has Built
Woman Evolve describes its mission as helping women confront fear, rewrite limiting narratives and cultivate spiritual and personal growth. That language resonates because women's real lives often do not unfold according to a tidy success story. Some are raising children, caregiving, grieving, rebuilding finances, returning to school, recovering from illness or trying to find their voices. Roberts's public work has consistently made room for discussions of shame, confidence, purpose and change. Her books, including 'Woman Evolve' and 'Power Moves,' invite readers to think about agency and identity, while conferences and podcast conversations turn those ideas into shared discussion.
A Continuing Conversation, Not a Single Event
Her podcast has remained another way of reaching listeners. An October 9, 2026 episode described as 'God Can Meet You Here | Mind Your Business Edition' featured responses to personal listener questions, including faith, relationships, identity and emotional strain. The reported episode also discussed an October tour and the need to reconsider the pace of major events. That matters because the most enduring ministry is not necessarily the ministry that schedules the most appearances. It may be the one able to offer support in ordinary moments—during commutes, early mornings, lonely evenings and uncertain transitions.
Making Room for Mental Health
One notable feature of Roberts's public messaging is the way spiritual encouragement can coexist with conversations about professional support. In the October podcast discussion, a caller's difficult circumstances prompted an emphasis on community and therapy as well as faith. That should not be treated as medical advice, but it reflects a useful principle: prayer, trusted relationships and qualified mental health care do not have to be framed as enemies. Many people who feel pressure to appear strong in religious spaces need to hear that asking for help is not an admission of spiritual failure.
Why This Moment Matters
Public figures are often applauded for being endlessly available. Yet audiences can learn something valuable when leaders visibly renegotiate what they can do. The decision to reschedule a flagship conference does not erase its purpose. It creates space for a fuller conversation about boundaries and stewardship. Those lessons extend to working parents, entrepreneurs, ministry volunteers, students and anyone who measures their worth by productivity. A postponed plan can be a responsible plan. A healing season can still be a season of meaningful leadership.
A Legacy Being Written in Real Time
Roberts's influence cannot be measured through one sermon, one conference weekend or one difficult year. The larger story includes books, community building, the transition at The Potter's House and the relationships her teaching has helped foster. The most constructive way to recognize her work is to describe the facts without romanticizing the injury or implying that faith eliminates physical limits. Her example offers an encouraging possibility: a person can be committed to a calling while also being honest about what recovery demands.
Her Books: From Lost and Found to a New 2026 Devotional
Sarah’s books give readers several entry points into her message. Lost and Found: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life, published in 2014, is the memoir to seek out for her earlier personal story. It places the later public platform in context by returning to the experiences she wrote about before Woman Evolve became a major gathering.
Woman Evolve: Break Up with Your Fears and Revolutionize Your Life, released in 2021, is a central title for understanding the message associated with the movement. Readers who discover her through preaching may find a book a useful way to slow down, reflect and discuss ideas over several weeks instead of moving immediately to the next video.
All Hope Is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation, published in 2023, focuses on recovering a sense of hope amid disappointment, grief and uncertainty. The publisher describes hope as something readers can rediscover and put into practice even when circumstances remain difficult.
Power Moves: Ignite Your Confidence and Become a Force, released April 30, 2024, addresses confidence, identity and authenticity in Christ. It is a distinct title from her newest devotional, so readers looking for her latest work should check the publication information rather than assuming the most familiar book is the most recent.
The Power in Surrender: 100 Ways to Tap Into the Courage to Trust God’s Plan Over Fear, Worry, and Doubt was published March 3, 2026, by Thomas Nelson. The 224-page devotional contains 100 readings focused on courage, doubt, trust and living authentically in Christ. Its devotional format offers a different pace from a conference weekend or a full sermon: readers can engage with one reflection at a time.
These titles approach related questions from different angles: how to understand the past, how to face fear, how to recover hope and how to move forward with confidence. Readers can choose the format and subject that meet their needs. Publication dates, editions and purchase options are linked in the resource directory below.
Beyond the Stage: Outreach and Practical Development
Woman Evolve’s work also includes No Woman Left Behind. On its official outreach page, the organization reports supporting more than seventy organizations owned or led by women and distributing more than $250,000 to women in need. These are the organization’s published cumulative figures, not independently audited totals or amounts attributed specifically to 2026.
The same page describes support involving women in correctional facilities, single and teen mothers, and female entrepreneurs. It also invites people to explore donating or volunteering. This adds a service dimension to the public story: conferences and videos are visible, while practical support is another part of the movement’s stated work.
WE School extends that practical emphasis into online learning. Its official site lists Strength in Vulnerability with Dr. Anita Phillips; Wealth Building and Financial Literacy with Marsha Barnes; Love, Marriage, and Relationship Dynamics with Touré Roberts; and Revolutionize Your Identity. The offerings connect faith discussions with relationships, emotional wellness and financial knowledge. Readers should review current enrollment terms and course descriptions before purchasing.
Woman Evolve TV is a separate paid streaming offering, while the official YouTube channel provides another place to explore her public teaching. A paid course, a streaming subscription, a book and a church service are different ways of engaging; readers do not need to purchase every format to become familiar with her work.
Where to Watch, Read, Listen and Connect
For a first visit, start with a full sermon or podcast episode. Hearing the broader context can help readers understand her approach more clearly than a short clip. The directory at the end includes her official YouTube channel, Dallas church livestream, podcast, books, courses, store, devotional signup and conference information.
For local participation, check The Potter’s House’s visit page and calendar. Its general service schedule does not guarantee Sarah will preach at a particular service. For conferences, confirm the city and date before planning travel: the announced Woman Evolve Conference is July 29–31, 2027, in Atlanta, Georgia. Previous Arlington gatherings are part of its history, rather than an announcement of a new DFW conference.
Looking Ahead
Woman Evolve's announced 2027 conference provides a clear future gathering point, but the movement is bigger than a date on a calendar. Its message of evolution is especially relevant when evolution means accepting an unexpected reality and making wiser choices within it. The next chapter is worth following not because anyone can guarantee a dramatic outcome, but because Sarah Jakes Roberts has continued showing up for meaningful conversations while protecting space for recovery. Sometimes that is what leadership looks like: not an uninterrupted performance, but a steady commitment to purpose, people and truth.
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