Jessica Hearne

Jessica is a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel based in Danville, Virginia. Danville is a city in Southside Virginia where 38% of children live below the poverty line, nearly 3 times the average for Virginia. One in 5 people in Danville live with food insecurity, and the median household income there is about half that of the state.

 Jessica and her husband Joshua serve with and through Grace and Main Fellowship, an intentional, ecumenical Christian community devoted to hospitality, simplicity, prayer, nonviolent action and grassroots community development. The foundation of their ministry is simple: building relationships and community.

Grace and Main ministers with and among people in Danville who are experiencing homelessness, hunger, poverty, addiction, and food and housing insecurity. They do this in a variety of ways, such as:

• Hospitality houses: a network of 6 houses owned or rented by Grace and Main leaders that provide shelter, food, prayer, and rest to those experiencing homelessness, hunger, poverty and addiction.
• Community meals: several dozen family-style meals every year at a variety of locations ranging from borrowed church fellowship halls to homes to parks to block parties.
• Urban Farm: a community growing space operated by a team of Grace and Main and neighborhood leaders. The food grown here combats hunger locally in a variety of important ways.
• Tool Library: friends and neighbors can borrow any number of tools, including hand tools, landscaping equipment, lawn mowers, pressure washers, and ladders. These tools offer folks an opportunity to earn extra income through side work, or maintain their own homes.
• Community development: supporting and encouraging the development of leaders who are directly affected by poverty, working with churches and local organizations for positive change in the city of Danville and beyond.

Your generosity in support of the Hearnes and their mission programs will transform lives. Below are examples of how your gifts can empower, equip and encourage communities and individuals through the power of Christ’s love. When you give, you partner to provide these programs and so much more. 

Learn more about Grace and Main Fellowship at www.graceandmain.org. Connect with Jessica and Joshua at jhearne@cbf.net.