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Meet
Sara Beth
BIO
Sara Beth Marshall is first a daughter of the Most High King, second a deeply devoted wife to her incredible husband Ryan, and third a grateful mother to eight beautiful children in their blended family. Her story is not one of perfection, but of redemption marked by both beauty and brokenness, victories and failures, and plenty of big and small mistakes along the way. Yet through every season, YHWH has remained faithful, continually teaching her how to get back up, rebuild, grow, and keep walking forward in Him. Those experiences have deeply shaped the compassion, humility, and authenticity she brings into her work, ministry, and relationships.
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A homeschool mother, educator, with a deep passion for helping women and children flourish in both faith and learning. She is the founder of Shalomstead, a homestead-based tutoring center focused on helping children through a whole-child approach rooted in creation.
Sara Beth holds a degree in education and spent five years teaching agricultural education in the public school system before transitioning into homeschooling, tutoring, and ministry work. She has homeschooled for seven years through the classical model and has taught a wide variety of subjects and ages over the years, though logic remains one of her favorite classes to teach. Her background in both traditional and alternative education gives her a unique perspective on how children learn best, especially those who need creative, individualized support. She specializes in reading intervention, ESL, ADHD support, and multi-sensory learning, and is also a certified Horse Powered Reading® practitioner.
In addition to her educational background, Sara Beth has pursued studies in counseling and hopes to continue that work in the future, driven by a deep passion for emotional wellness, discipleship, and helping families thrive.
Alongside her educational work, Sara Beth is the co-founder of Women at the Well Collective, a ministry devoted to awakening women to the beauty of Torah, biblical discipleship, and wholehearted devotion to Yeshua. Through Bible studies, resources, gatherings, and community outreach, her heart is to create spaces where women feel seen, strengthened, encouraged, and deeply rooted in the Word of God.
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Sara Beth and her husband are raising a beautifully busy blended family of eight children in Kentucky, where life is often filled with muddy boots, sourdough starters, unfinished art projects, horse hair on everything, and at least one child asking for a snack at all times. Their homestead includes horses, goats, chickens, gardens, two rescued thanksgiving turkeys, books stacked in every corner, and plenty of opportunities to practice patience and grace.
When she is not teaching, creating curriculum, organizing events, or chasing escaped farm animals, Sara Beth can be found kayaking, skiing, riding horses, painting, reading, watching teachings or dreaming up her next creative project with a cup of cold un-drank coffee in hand.
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At the center of everything she does is a desire to help others draw near to the Living Water, cultivate peace in their homes (including her own), and walk faithfully in the ways of YHWH.
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Testimony
Sara Beth grew up deeply involved in the Christian and Baptist church, spending her childhood and young adult years immersed in Sunday services, Sunday night gatherings, Wednesday night Bible studies, youth group, mission trips, and even jail ministry as a teenager. She looks back on those years with tremendous gratitude and believes they played a foundational role in helping her fall in love with Scripture and with Yeshua.
As her hunger for the Word deepened, however, she began wrestling with questions she could not ignore, particularly surrounding the role of Torah in the life of a believer. Passages such as Matthew 5, where Yeshua says He did not come to abolish the Law, and 1 John’s call to “walk as He walked,” stirred something deeply within her.
Through some of the darkest moments in life she pressed in deeper, eager for something that felt true and real. What began as simple questions slowly became a journey of passionately studying, praying, and grappling with Scripture.. truly wrestling with Adonai and re-examining long-held assumptions. Though she sought answers from trusted leaders, she often left feeling unconvinced and continued searching the Scriptures for herself.
Through resources from 119 Ministries, Sara Beth eventually connected with a local couple, Donald and Donna Hale, who lovingly helped disciple and walk alongside her family during this season of transition. Later, she found fellowship closer to home, where she eventually met more people who would genuinely change her life, including Ciara.
The journey has not always been easy. Like many families walking this path, there have been seasons of misunderstanding, strained relationships, grief, and growing pains. Yet through it all, Sara Beth has seen the faithfulness of YHWH over and over again. What began as a search for answers became a complete transformation of the way her family lives, worships, learns, and walks out their faith.
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Today, her passion is not to present herself as someone who “has it all figured out,” but simply as someone willing to walk beside other women as they seek truth, ask hard questions, and pursue deeper discipleship. She believes there is incredible power in having faithful people come alongside you during seasons of spiritual growth and if she can offer encouragement, support, or wisdom to another woman walking that road, she considers it a deep honor.
