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Sex Worker Outreach
Abstract: Ex-stripper turns evangelist for women in sex industry.
Heather Veitch (pictured) is a former stripper who now lives her life for Jesus Christ. Without the benefit of ordination, she has taken on a new mission in life: helping to bring Christ into the lives of women in the sex industry. She does this the old-fashioned way, by building personal relationships with the women to whom she ministers and by helping them find churches where they can learn more about God.
Her ministry, founded in 2005, is called, JCs Girls. The ministry organizes teams of women to encounter women working in adult entertainment:
Some of our methods include attending and participating in porn conventions, in addition to visiting women in strip clubs. We will go wherever the Lord calls us. When we visit strip clubs, we often purchase time from the dancers, which is normally set aside for lap dances. We use this time to speak with and pray for the women, while offering resources and assistance in transitioning out of the sex industry.
Ms. Veitch's ministry to strippers and porn stars challenges conventional notions of evangelism, and has become the subject of YouTube Videos and an award-wining, feature-length documentary title Pussycat Preacher.
We wonder how this ministry looks through the lens of the ELCA Draft Social Statement on Sexuality.
