Mia Grubbs

contingent staff

"The Lord saved me when I was 16 years old at a summer church camp called CIY. Before, I saw Him as the big God in the sky who had a list of every wrong thing I had ever done and who had turned His back on me a long time ago. I felt insignificant to God and never knew if He even knew my name. During 2020, I went into a state of anxiety and depression due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I was lonely, confused, and desperate for attention to make me feel whole. I began to look to worldly idols to fill the void in my heart to be loved and seen. After a long period of being failed by the world over and over, I found an old kids devotional under my bed. I decided to read it again because nothing else had worked to fill the anxious longing in my heart for something greater. After months of consistently reading and praying, I went to church camp again over the summer of my junior year, and that is where the Lord saved me! It was there that I felt my sin for the first time. It was heavy, and it genuinely felt like there were chains on my shoulders. I knew that Jesus was the only one who could wash away my sins, and I begged Him to, and He did! He saved my life in that moment, and I became His!

 From this time on, my life truly changed. My desire to please others and live as I once lived seemed in vain, and I found my true identity in Jesus’ love for me and what He said about me. Throughout my time in college, being in Kappa Delta sorority and involved in Campus Outreach truly sharpened and sanctified me in so many ways! With a discipleship group, I learned more about what it meant to be alive in Christ, and I was challenged to confess sin due to the legalism that entangled my heart so greatly. CO staff men and women challenged me with truth and encouragement, and I began to share my faith with my sorority through leading a bible study. We met weekly from January of 2023 until I graduated in December of 2025, and now it is passed off to a freshman to continue to steward such a precious gift of grace that the Lord has bestowed upon the sorority! Being able to give my life away consistently for three years to so many girls was a blessing that only the Lord could have given me. The gift of being able to entrust to faithful women all that I have learned in hopes of multiplication in Greek life is the vision and hope as I step onto the college campus!"