As Grace Kelley sees it, one of the best things she ever did was steal that church van last October. The pastor who owns the van agrees. Her trespasses forgiven, the two have formed a bond that has set the drug addict and daughter of country music legend Wynonna Judd on a new path.
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Kent Hart, pastor of Ground Zero Church of the Nazarene, speaks during a morning service, Sunday, July 20, 2025, at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville.
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Grace Kelley, center, beams as she is baptized at Ground Zero Church of the Nazarene in Charlottesville.
COURTESY OF GRACE KELLEY
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Country music singer Wynonna Judd, top, and her daughter Grace Kelley, bottom, attend "Little Women" on Broadway, Wednesday, March 23, 2005.
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Grace Kelley leaves a Ground Zero Church of the Nazarene service, Sunday, July 20, 2025, at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville.
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Grace Kelley prays during a Ground Zero Church of the Nazarene service, Sunday, July 20, 2025, at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville.
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