Jessica is a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel based in Danville, Virginia. Danville is a city in Southside Virginia where 38 percent of children live below the poverty line, nearly three times the average for Virginia. One in five people in Danville lives with food insecurity, and the median household income there is about half that of the rest 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. Important aspects of their ministry include hospitality houses that provide shelter, food, prayer and rest; community meals; an urban farm that combats hunger; a tool library, where friends and neighbors can borrow hand tools, landscaping equipment, lawn mowers, pressure washers and ladders to earn extra income or maintain their own homes.
Learn more at www.cbf.net/hearne.
This Week's Field Personnel, Engagement Partners and Staff Member Birthdays
Chaplains (CH) and Pastoral Counselors . . .
June 5: Jennifer Clamon, Indianapolis, IN (CH), Stacy Sergent, Mount Pleasant, SC (CH) and David Smelser, Lucedale, MS (CH)
June 6: Erskine Alvis, Black Mountain, NC (CH), Michael Costner, Valdese, NC (CH), Parker Ebling-Artz, Kansas City, MO (CH) and Greg McClain, Lillington, NC (CH)
June 7: Butch Stillwell, Candler, NC (CH) and Carol Wilkinson, Winston-Salem, NC (CH)
June 8: Larry Lawhon, Boone City, NC (CH), Randy Parks, Sparta, NJ (CH), Clay Porter, Stanton, TX (CH), Joseph Primeaux, Chesapeake, VA (CH) and Jeromy Wells, Commerce City, CO (CH)
June 9: Sara Stubbs, Monroe, NC (CH), 9 Patricia Taylor, Tuscaloosa, AL (CH), Maria Robertson, Canton, GA (CH) and Doug Wiggington, Pineville, LA (CH)
June 10: Cindy Goza, Little Rock, AR (CH), Christopher McDaniel, Charleston, SC (CH), Ansia Picou, Highland, NY (CH) and Michael Osment, Martin, TN (CH)
Field Personnel (FP) and Engagement Partners . . .
June 7: Diann Berry, Emeritus (FP)
June 8: Janice Newell, Emeritus (FP)
June 9: Michelle Cayard, Emeritus (FP)
June 10: Kim Wyatt, Raleigh, NC (FP)
June 11: Joshua Hearne, Danville, VA (EP)
What We Can Do. . .
Pray for Jessica and Joshua and their work on our behalf in Danville, Virginia and others having birthdays this week . . .
Give to help support missions around the world . . .
Go wherever God leads you . . .