Groves spent four years teaching high school in Rosemount, Minnesota before recording her first album, Past the Wishing, in 1998.

In September 2005, Groves, her husband Troy, her father-in-law, a neighbor, and a Minneapolis ER doctor delivered a tour bus and trailer load of baby supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina in Slidell, Louisiana.

Notably, was deeply moved after reading Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, so she took a trip to Rwanda, Africa, with Pastor Rick Warren and a Christian group from Saddleback Church to learn about the challenges of reconciliation and economic development 11 years after the mass Rwandan genocide.

Bonus features included Grove's performance of Add To The Beauty from the 2006 Jars of Clay Tour, Nomad vignettes for small group, etc.

On October 30, 2007, the first single from the upcoming album Tell Me What You Know, titled "When the Saints", was featured as a free download from Apple's iTunes Store.

Groves was in the lineup in December 2008 of the Love Came Down Tour: A Christmas Pageant with Jars of Clay, Sixpence None the Richer and Leeland.

The USMCFP is the same prison that Sara's grandparents, Lloyd and Nita Colbaugh, have visited for 39 years and to which they took her as a baby at Christmas-time 1972.

[7] Groves ended 2009 with her first solo Christmas tour performing songs from her 2008 Holiday release O Holy Night.

In describing the space, the Groves write: "The heart of Art House is to provide 'resources that communicate the worth and necessity of all vocations with access to speakers, teachers, and guest artists.