JC's Girls

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JC's Girls
A photograph of four women, three sitting behind a table and one standing in front of it, all smiling at the viewer and wearing black

The JC's Girls booth at the 2007 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo
Formation March 25, 2005 (2005-03-25)
Founder(s) Heather Veitch
Lori Albee
Type NGO
Purpose/focus To evangelize to women in the sex industry
Headquarters The Rock Church
Location San Diego, California
Region served United States
Membership Women
Official languages English language
Leader Sheri Brown
Co-leader Laura Bonde
Affiliations Sandals Church
Central Christian Church
Website www.jcsgirls.org

JC's Girls (short for Jesus Christ's Girls, also called the JC's Girls Girls Girls Ministry) is an American evangelical organization of women who evangelize to women in the sex industry. JC's Girls seeks to tell these women about the gospel, but does not try to pursuade them to leave the sex industry. If women express a desire to leave the sex industry, JC's Girls provides them with support to transition out of it. JC's Girls is less focused on seeking conversions than on communicating the message to women in the sex industry that there are Christians who aren't judging them and are willing to accept them. The organization also provides help to people seeking to overcome pornography addiction.

Heather Veitch, the founder of the organization, worked as a stripper for four years before converting to Christianity in 1999 and eventually leaving the sex industry. She founded JC's Girls on Good Friday in 2005 and Sandals Church in Riverside became the organization's initial base of operations, with the support of the California Southern Baptist Convention. That December, England's The Daily Telegraph published an article about the organization's activities, prompting much additional media attention. The following month, JC's Girls had a booth at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo which received much traffic and news coverage. Veitch eventually moved to Las Vegas and made Central Christian Church the new home base of JC's Girls. Theresa Scher, who had previously worked as a stripper and call girl, founded the San Diego chapter of JC's Girls at The Rock Church with social worker Sheri Brown in 2007 and, within a year, several strippers had left the sex industry to volunteer with the chapter. Veitch and Scher resigned from JC's Girls in 2011 and 2012 respectively, leaving Brown as the leader of the organization. As of 2014, the sole chapter of JC's Girls is in San Diego.

When JC's Girls was first founded, pornographic film director James DiGiorgio took glamour photographs of three JC's Girls members for the organization's original website for free. DiGiorgio was not a Christian, but said that he was helping JC's Girls because the sex industry is "always trying to preach freedom of speech [so] anyone in this industry who has a problem with [JC's Girls'] message is a fucking hypocrite." The Reverend Ray Turner of Temple Missionary Baptist Church criticized JC's Girls for not explicitly encouraging strippers to stop stripping. In response to this idea, Veitch said, "Do we ask gluttons to stop eating too much before they come to church?" Philip Sherwell of the Calgary Herald called the evangelism of JC's Girls "America's most unusual Christian outreach operation". Adherents of Raëlism, a UFO religion, founded an organization called "Raël's Girls" in reaction against JC's Girls to tell women in the sex industry that sexual pleasure is intrinsically valuable and that they should maximize their own sexual pleasure while servicing clients.

Ideology

Calling itself "a biblically-based Christian ministry,"[1] JC's Girls is an evangelical organization and, in keeping with common evangelical principles, holds that Christians should not judge others for their sin but should rather engage with them.[2] The initial focus of JC's Girls was strippers and erotic dancers, but the organization eventually began to engage with softcore pornographic models and call girls as well considering the considerable overlap between the populations employed by the respective portions of the sex industry.[3] The organization also diversified to provide people with help overcoming pornography addiction.[4] Members of the organization evangelize at adult entertainment conventions and strip clubs.[5] Because many of these women have been spiritually abused by Christians attempting to frighten them out of the sex industry with warnings of damnation, JC's Girls emphasizes the message that God loves these women.[6] JC's Girls seeks to tell these women about the gospel, but does not try to pursuade them to leave the sex industry;[7] instead, they hope that God will lead them to do so.[2] If women express a desire to leave the sex industry, JC's Girls provides them with support to transition out of it.[8] The organization seeks to connect women in the sex industry with churches that will not judge them.[2] JC's Girls warns these churches that the women the organization refers to them might show up wearing revealing clothing, and that the churches should accept the women without condemning their dress. The organization also asks churches not to guilt the women into converting to Christianity, but rather be patient with them.[4]

JC's Girls is less focused on seeking conversions than on communicating the message to women in the sex industry that there are Christians who aren't judging them and are willing to accept them.[2] The organization's members seek to convince these women that Jesus loves them, that they are beautiful, and that they have dignity.[9] JC's Girls volunteers tend to dress attractively and do things like backcombing their hair in order to convey the message that such things are not sinful, and that becoming a Christian does not mean that one needs to become less attractive.[2] Members often wear eyelash extensions, stiletto heels, skinny jeans, and skin-tight t-shirts.[10] Founder Heather Veitch said, "Our desire is for people to see that Christianity is anything but boring and restrictive. In Christ, we are free to experience adventure, pleasure, forgiveness, hope and peace."[11] In the past, there have been chapters of JC's Girls in Las Vegas, Nevada;[12] Riverside, California; Austin, Texas; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota,[8] but, as of 2014, there is only one chapter and it is located in San Diego, California.[13]

History

Background

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Heather Veitch founded JC's Girls after having converted to Christianity and having left a four-year career in the sex industry as a stripper and pornographic film actor.

Veitch worked as a stripper for four years[7] in several cities in California as well as in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] In 1999, after having appeared in four pornographic films in the softcore and fetish genres[7] (trample fetish specifically),[2] she converted to Christianity and eventually left the sex industry, despite the fact that no one attempted to tell her about Jesus. In 2003, Veitch found out that a close friend of hers who was working as a stripper had died[7] of alcohol intoxication; the two had worked together at Club 215 Showgirls, a strip club in Colton, California.[1] Veitch regretted not having told her friend about the gospel before she died, and Veitch remembered that no one had tried to tell her about it while she was in the sex industry either. She conceived of herself leaving the sex industry to become a Christian as having been "like running away from a burning house and knowing all your friends are there." These thoughts prompted Veitch to evangelize to strippers.[7] By 2005, she was working as a hairdresser and Lori Albee,[3] a housewife with two children and no experience with the sex industry,[2] was one of her clients. As Veitch was dressing Albee's hair, Veitch told the story of her friend who had died in loneliness and depression. When Veitch said that she wished she could have told her friend about the gospel while she was still alive, Albee suggested that they start evangelizing to other strippers.[3] Matt Brown, Veitch's pastor at Sandals Church,[1] then came to get his hair cut, and Veitch asked him for help in starting an organization to minister to sex workers, and he was interested.[4] Veitch and Brown then started Matthew's House, an organization they began promoting as "a ministry to help people working in or addicted to the sex industry."[1]

Riverside chapter

On Good Friday in 2005[3] in Riverside when Veitch was 31 years old[7] and Albee was 35,[2] Veitch and Albee gathered six other women and the eight of them went to a strip club where they paid for lap dances. Instead of accepting the lap dances, however, the volunteers simply talked with the strippers, telling them that they were loved and accepted by God, that churches were composed entirely of sinners, and that they would be welcome there.[3] One of the women with whom Albee spoke cried and told her about having wanted to go to a church many times before but never having done so because she had thought that she would have been rejected.[1] Albee offered the woman prayer, and she eagerly accepted, and then hugged Albee after the prayer. Albee said that talking with women at the strip club changed her life.[4] Because the volunteers received more positive responses than they had expected, they decided to continue to evangelize at strip clubs. To organize these activities, Veitch and Albee founded JC's Girls,[3] with "JC" standing for Jesus Christ.[7] They made Matthew's House the parent organization for JC's Girls.[3]

A photograph of two women looking at the viewer and smiling while wearing black sleeveless shirts, all in front of a black sign with red letters
Tanya Huerter (right), who joined Heather Veitch (left) as two of JC's Girls' initial three leaders, said, "I believe God created sex for marriage. But God will meet these girls where they are."

Veitch became the head of JC's Girls and the 17,000-member Sandals Church became the organization's base of operations.[7] The church is part of the California Southern Baptist Convention, which supports JC's Girls.[14] The church gave JC's Girls a $10,000 budget in their inaugural year, and much of this budget was taken up by Veitch's salary.[7] JC's Girls members continued visiting strip clubs across California, paying for private dances, and then evangelizing the strippers instead of receiving the dances. Within six months of the founding of the organization, members had convinced several strippers to start attending a church, and only once were members asked to stop evangelizing in a strip club. By December, Veitch and Albee had become two of the organization's three main leaders, the other being Tanya Huerter, a teacher who was raised in a Christian home[1] and who, like Albee, had no previous experience with the sex industry. Huerter explained why she volunteers with JC's Girls by saying, "I have a heart for these girls. I believe God created sex for marriage. But God will meet these girls where they are."[2] Veitch, Albee, and Huerter invited women from other churches in the area to join JC's Girls, and approximately 90 churches responded with interest.[4] JC's Girls first received public attention in December, when England's The Daily Telegraph published an article about the organization's activities. The article prompted much additional media coverage from other newspapers, cable and network television programs, and radio stations. Veitch began dividing her time between managing JC's Girls, appearing in the media, and serving as a caregiver for her husband, who had terminal brain cancer.[7] She said that working with JC's Girls helped keep her mind off of her husband's illness.[14]

A photograph of a woman with blonde hair looking to the left of the viewer while wearing a black sleeveless shirt reading "jcsgirls"
JC's Girls had a booth at the 2006 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo which received much traffic, while Heather Veitch was interviewed for a variety of media.

In January 2006,[7] JC's Girls had a booth at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo,[2] the largest trade fair for pornography in the United States.[7] The booth was decorated to look like a strip club booth, consisting primarily of a trestle table covered in fake fur with a hot pink plastic sign. The women handling the booth wore sleeveless shirts reading "JC's Girls" in sequins. When convention attendees would stop at the booth thinking that JC's Girls was a strip club, the women would have them guess the identity of JC in "JC's Girls", after which point the attendees would receive a black-and-pink sticker reading "I've been booby-trapped by JC's Girls."[2] Members of the organization found that beginning with humour in this way made convention attendees more willing to pursue conversations at the booth.[4] JC's Girls distributed more than 200 Bibles at the convention, all wrapped in t-shirts reading "Holy Hottie".[7] They also distributed DVDs of a sermon by Brown about pornography addiction.[4] The booth was located at the back of the room near the exit, which Veitch found comforting because of the potential that passersby would violently object to the organization's philosophy. Instead, the booth became very popular; many convention attendees wished to take pictures with the JC's Girls volunteers, and Veitch was interviewed for a variety of media, including a CNN news broadcast and a documentary film by Bill Day, who had previously made the film Missionary Positions about XXXchurch.com, another Christian organization that had a booth at the trade fair; XXXchurch.com's focus was challenging men to sign a pledge to spend a full week abstaining from pornography.[2] By the end of the convention, the JC's Girls booth had received visits from thousands of men who read about the gospel there.[4] JC's Girls concluded their activities for the day with a prayer meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas.[2] Also that month, Brown approved a $50,000 budget for JC's Girls for the year. By April of that year, seven strippers had attended Sandals Church because of JC's Girls, and various strippers across the United States had contacted the organization looking for local churches to attend. Within a year of founding JC's Girls, Veitch had lost 25 pounds and become more physically fit in order to demonstrate to strippers that she could still be working in the sex industry and that the message of JC's Girls is therefore not motivated by jealousy.[7] She said, "I want them to know that if I wanted to, I could be a stripper again, but I choose to live my life for the Lord."[14]

Las Vegas chapter

A photograph of three blonde women standing next to each other and smiling at the viewer while wearing jeans and black shirts
JC's Girls has collaborated with Hookers for Jesus, a similar organization founded by Annie Lobert. (left to right: Lori Albee, Heather Veitch, Lobert)

Veitch eventually moved to Las Vegas and made Central Christian Church the new home base of JC's Girls.[12] In 2008, Veitch collaborated with Annie Lobert, a former call girl working with Hookers for Jesus, a similar organization to JC's Girls. The two organizations were both represented at that year's AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.[15] The PussyCat Preacher, a documentary film about Veitch's experiences in starting JC's Girls, was released that February. The following month, pornographic film actor Sophia Lynn left the sex industry after becoming a Christian and going through more than a year of counselling with Veitch through JC's Girls. Veitch had flown to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to spend a weekend educating the 550-member Celebrate Community Church about the sex industry, and the church soon gave Lynn a job in their office, a scholarship to go to college, and a place to live. Lynn said, "I hope I don't have to wake up from this. I feel like my life has been saved." Based on Veitch's work with Celebrate Community Church, JC's Girls started a program called "One Church for One Girl", which encourages churches to help women transition to a life outside the sex industry.[12] In July 2011, Veitch resigned from JC's Girls so she would have more time to spend with her family.[13]

San Diego chapter

Theresa Scher, who had gotten involved with striptease in 1997 and began working as a call girl thereafter, was looking for a way out of the sex industry when she watched a CNN interview with Albee about her work with JC's Girls in Riverside. Scher contacted Albee, who allowed Scher to found a new chapter of JC's Girls in San Diego. Sher founded the chapter in 2007 at the age of 30[3] with Sheri Brown, a former social worker.[8] Brown had previously hated strippers, but, once she had accepted a job helping teenage mothers finish high school and the first four teens she worked with were strippers, she said that she developed "an overwhelming passion to reach out to these precious women in love and without condemnation." She had been sexually abused when she was a child and she had also been a teenage mother; she found that both of these experiences helped her to relate to strippers, as many of the strippers she encountered had also had those experiences.[16] Scher received her first volunteers when she unexpectedly gave her Christian testimony to a group of women at a retreat; several women responded to her story sympathetically, and they became members of the new JC's Girls chapter. The Rock Church, a 10,000-member church with a majority of members under the age of 30, became the chapter's base and, within a year, several strippers had left the sex industry to volunteer with the chapter. Many of the chapter's members do not personally go to the strip clubs, but help in other ways. Scher said that she was amazed at the success the chapter had seen, and said that the former strippers were the most effective JC's Girls volunteers because they understand from personal experience the situations of the women they are trying to help.[3] Twice each month, members of the San Diego chapter of JC's Girls visit strip clubs such as the Body Shop and Pure Platinum.[8] They pray before, during, and after each visit, and have a prayer team praying for them while they are out.[17]

A photograph of a woman with blonde hair looking at the viewer and smiling while wearing a crown, long earrings, and a sash over her right shoulder
Carrie Prejean, who was crowned Miss California USA in 2009, became a member of the San Diego chapter of JC's Girls in 2008.

Carrie Prejean became a member of the San Diego chapter of JC's Girls in 2008 and went on to become Miss California USA the following year.[18] At the Miss USA 2009 competition, Prejean became the subject of a controversy because of her response to a question about same-sex marriage.[19] Scher said that the controversy would not affect Prejean's membership in the organization, and that the issue of same-sex marriage was not relevant to the group's activities.[18] Prejean said that, in volunteering with JC's Girls, she encountered pornographic models who, through exploitation and abuse, had developed very low self-esteem, but who then regained a sense of their own dignity because of their interaction with JC's Girls volunteers.[9]

By 2009, there were approximately 40 women on the chapter's active evangelism team,[18] and they had given pink Bibles to most of the strippers in San Diego County,[20] along with other gifts such as lip gloss, necklaces, and lotions.[8] On one occasion, the volunteers left such gifts at a strip club they weren't allowed to enter, and one of the club's strippers showed up at The Rock Church the following Sunday and converted to Christianity.[21] In August 2010, Brown went to Warsaw, Ohio to briefly join forces with Anny Donewald, a woman who had previously worked as a stripper[8] and who had founded Eve's Angels, a similar organization to JC's Girls.[6] Together, Brown and Donewald successfully negotiated a peace treaty between women working at a strip club and members of a local church who had been picketing outside the strip club for four years.[6] The strippers had been counter-protesting by dancing in bikinis in front of the church during Sunday worship services while Tommy George, the club owner, played music from his Dodge Challenger. Brown and Donewald spoke at the church, urging them to stop protesting in front of the strip club and saying, "It's not our job to tell these women that it's time to get out of there... Just love them. Let the Holy Spirit draw them out." Brown and Donewald also visited the Foxhole, the strip club, and, after speaking with the women there, two of them converted to Christianity, although they continued working at the club.[22] The peace treaty received much publicity, but the church's members began picketing again once Brown had returned to San Diego,[8] as did George and his club's strippers.[22]

By 2011, several of the strippers JC's Girls members had spoken with in San Diego had begun attending a Bible study hosted by the organization, and the chapter had helped one stripper become a Christian, leave the sex industry, and receive employment with Hyatt. In March of 2011, the chapter sent a delegation to Adultcon at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Scher and Brown spoke with conference attendees and offered them prayer.[8] That July, when Veitch left the organization, she handed the leadership to Sher and Brown. In June 2012,[13] Sher gave up her co-leadership of the organization so she too could focus on her family, leaving Brown as the leader.[16] By 2013, the organization had established guidelines regarding how women in the sex industry can transition into participating in the evangelistic activities of JC's Girls. These guidelines stipulate that the woman must consistently attend a Bible study for four months, read Francine Rivers' Redeeming Love, and be interviewed by the chapter's leaders, who then make a decision about whether or not the woman should join the organization's outreach team. These guidelines were established because, early in the chapter's history, some women who went quickly from working in the sex industry to evangelizing with JC's Girls soon left the organization and went back to the sex industry.[17]

Original website

Within the a few months of founding JC's Girls, Veitch and Albee launched www.jcsgirls.com, the organization's first official website, although the website initially received little traffic.[7] Three months after the launch of the website, it had received 40,000 hits.[23] By December 2005, JC's Girls received messages through their website from pornographic film actors and men with pornography addiction who said that JC's Girls had altered the way they lived and had introduced them to Christianity.[1] Pornographic film director James DiGiorgio,[2] a friend of Veitch's,[4] took glamour photographs[2] of Veitch, Albee, and Huerter[1] for the JC's Girls website for free. He had previously taken photographs for XXXchurch.com, despite the fact that he had lost business as a result of becoming affiliated with the organization. DiGiorgio was not a Christian, but said that he was helping these organizations because the sex industry is "always trying to preach freedom of speech [so] anyone in this industry who has a problem with [JC's Girls'] message is a fucking hypocrite. You can't have it both ways."[2] Within a year of the organization's founding, Veitch, Albee, and Huerter were all maintaining Myspace pages that were receiving high volumes of traffic, and they used these pages for the same purposes as the official website: to offer support, counsel, and advice.[5] By 2008, the JC's Girls website was receiving as many as 15,000 hits per day.[3] A blog was included in the website.[11]

Reception

When JC's Girls first started receiving funds from Sandals Church, some of the church's members were displeased that their tithes and offerings were going towards lap dances. Brown said that funding the activities of JC's Girls was worthwhile because the sex industry "has been largely ignored by the evangelical church" and the budget allotted to JC's Girls is a "drop in the bucket" compared to the money made by the sex industry.[7] Rumours also circulated that the organization's funding was being used by Brown so he could personally receive lap dances.[24] Another concern expressed by members of Sandals Church was that ministering to strippers would be ineffective. Brown responded by appealing to Veitch's conversion, suggesting that other strippers could have similar experiences.[7] Because of the controversy surrounding JC's Girls, Brown nearly lost his church facility on California Baptist University campus, but the church ultimately united in support of JC's Girls and the church's location remained unchanged.[24]

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JC's Girls was heavily criticized for allowing pornographic film director James DiGiorgio to take glamour photographs of the organization's three initial leaders for the original JC's Girls website.

Terry Barone, spokesman of the California Southern Baptist Convention, said that JC's Girls members "are doing what Jesus did... He ministered to prostitutes and tax collectors." Barone said that members of the convention might find viewing the JC's Girls website awkward, but that the website was not intended for them.[14] Stephen Clark of the Los Angeles Times called the website "edgy" and "provocative".[14] In its first year, JC's Girls received much criticism for having let DiGiorgio take glamour photographs[1] of Veitch, Albee, and Huerter[11] for their website. Veitch responded to this criticism by saying that "it is not a sin to be attractive or dress cute" and that the photographs were intended to convince women in the sex industry to dismiss the idea that Christianity is about "being locked up in a house with a Bible."[1] DiGiorgio said that JC's Girls is correct in believing that there are women in the sex industry who need to be rescued from self-destructive behaviour, but he didn't think that encouraging the women to become Christians would necessarily be helpful.[2] At the end of 2005, Veitch said that she had expected that someone would have yelled at JC's Girls members or thrown them out of a strip club at some point, but no one had.[1] In 2006, The Reverend Ray Turner of Temple Missionary Baptist Church criticized JC's Girls for not explicitly encouraging strippers to stop stripping,[7] and asked, "How can you stay in the industry and have a relationship with God?"[14] In response to this idea, Veitch said, "Do we ask gluttons to stop eating too much before they come to church?"[25]

At the 2006 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, photographer Michael Grecco took a photograph of Veitch, Albee, and Huerter which he included in his 2007 book Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry. In the image caption, he called the trio a "devout Christian trinity".[5] Philip Sherwell of the Calgary Herald called the evangelism of JC's Girls "America's most unusual Christian outreach operation".[26] In a Daily Express article, a journalist wrote that JC's Girls members look like Barbie dolls or Las Vegas prostitutes, and said that they are successful in gaining entry into strip clubs because "the men who run them can't resist a flashy woman." This journalist also praised the organization's volunteers for their earnestness, pragmatism, and efficacy, and specifically described Veitch as uncommonly positive and impressive.[10] Pat Sherman of Pacific San Diego Magazine said that the members of the San Diego chapter of JC's Girls "have the looks to land jobs working the pole."[8] A journalist for The Observer compared JC's Girls to XXXchurch.com, writing that both of "these ministries are in some way reforming the church as well as their would-be followers."[2] Day said that JC's Girls are like Charlie's Angels, but in real life. He said that members of the organization are "fighting false glamour with real spiritual beauty."[11] In his book Evangelicals and the Arts in Fiction, John Weaver writes that the late science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein conceived of evangelicals as being sexually repressed, but as eventually undergoing a sexual revolution. Weaver offers JC's Girls and XXXchurch.com as evidence that Heinlein's prediction would be fulfilled.[27] Adherents of Raëlism, a UFO religion, founded an organization called "Raël's Girls" in reaction against JC's Girls. Like JC's Girls, Raël's Girls is an organization of women who engage with women in the sex industry as well as with their clients. The two organizations differ primarily in their message; Raëlians hold that sexual pleasure is intrinsically valuable, therefore members of Raël's Girls teach women in the sex industry how to maximize their own sexual pleasure while servicing clients.[28]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 Catherine Elsworth (December 5, 2005). "Former stripper takes God's word to world of porn". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved December 28, 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 "What would Jesus do?: Former $2000-a-night stripper Heather Veitch, now a born-again Christian, tells Gaby Wood why she's bringing the gospel to the 'adult industry'". The Observer. February 12, 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2013. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 S.D. Liddick (January 2008). "Saved by the Stripper: Former sex worker Theresa Brown [sic] aims to save souls through her stripper ministry". San Diego Magazine. Retrieved December 8, 2013. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Ed Donnally (July 2007). "The Stripper Who Found True Love". Charisma. Retrieved January 5, 2013. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Grecco (2007), n.p.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Margot Starbuck (September 13, 2010). "A New Message at the Strip Club-Church Showdown". Christianity Today. Retrieved January 6, 2013. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 Stephen Clark (April 1, 2006). "Ex-stripper evangelizes to sex industry". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 7, 2013. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 Pat Sherman (February 8, 2011). "Baring Their Souls: A Former Stripper and a Social Worker Spread God's Love". Pacific San Diego Magazine. Retrieved December 30, 2013. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Prejean (2009), p. 22.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Impressed by ex-strippers on a mission". Daily Express. March 25, 2006. p. 21. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "'Porn again' for kingdom of God: Ex-stripper starts Christian ministry to help people tied to sex industry". WorldNetDaily. December 4, 2005. Retrieved January 5, 2013. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "US church helps ex-porn star come back to Christ". Christian Today. March 20, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2013. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "Who are the JC's Girls?". JC's Girls. Retrieved January 26, 2014. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Stephen Clark (March 25, 2006). "Ex-Stripper Spreads Gospel to Those in Sex Industry". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 5, 2013. 
  15. ↑ KJ Mullins (January 28, 2008). "Hookers For Jesus Are On A Mission". Digital Journal. Retrieved January 7, 2013. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "I See Me". Strip Church (Fireproof Ministries) 5. 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Melissa Barnhart (June 26, 2013). "Christians Outreach Into Strip Clubs, Porn Conventions to Share Love of Jesus". The Christian Post. Retrieved January 6, 2013. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Ron Donoho (April 27, 2009). "Church, Padres Welcome Miss Cali Home". KNSD. Retrieved December 29, 2013. 
  19. ↑ Prejean (2009), p. x.
  20. ↑ McPherson (2009), p. 159.
  21. ↑ Wendy Griffith (February 23, 2010). "'Do Something' Campaign Transforming San Diego". Urban Christian News. Retrieved January 7, 2013. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Collin Binkley (August 15, 2010). "Churchgoers reach out to strippers after service, but all is not resolved". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved January 7, 2013. 
  23. ↑ Catherine Elsworth (December 5, 2005). "Christianity laid bare: JC's Girls on a mission to convert lap dancers and porn actors". National Post. p. A16. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Michelle A. Vu (February 16, 2008). "Film on Ex-Stripper Turned Preacher Stirs Controversy". The Christian Post. Retrieved January 7, 2013. 
  25. ↑ "Ex-Stripper Tries Winning Converts". WPVI-TV. February 21, 2006. Retrieved December 28, 2013. 
  26. ↑ Philip Sherwell (January 27, 2008). "'Hookers for Jesus' walk Vegas streets". Calgary Herald. p. A6. 
  27. ↑ Weaver (2013), p. 116.
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