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    Last year, a Nashville preacher’s wife started hanging out in local strip clubs. But Erin Stevens didn’t stay for the show. She came bearing food. Home cooked meals, actually.

    “I just felt God say, ‘Go feed the strippers,’” says Stevens. About a year later, Stevens is still feeding strippers, sometimes bringing them other gifts donated by local businesses. On one occasion she visited the strippers with $150 worth of Mary Kay cosmetics, which she gave away.

    Stevens is not alone in her outreach effort to strippers. She attended a training session run by a national network called Strip Church. The national organization’s web site describes it as a network of “forward-thinking women and men who are reaching out into the sex industry in incredible ways.”

    The site lists several other cities where Strip Church holds training and has set up ministries for women in the sex industry, including Los Angeles, Phoenix and Orange County, Calif.
    Stevens shows up early in the evening, before the strippers start work.

    “I bring the girls gifts,” she said. “Lip gloss, fingernail polish and more. I just ask about their kids, and family and their lives. I show them love. I don’t thump a Bible and preach.”

    It’s the practical, non-judgmental approach that has allowed Stevens to get through to at least some of the strippers.
    “She didn’t chastise me, and she was the first to tell me ‘God still loves you. You’re here, but He hasn’t left you,’” said one, identified by the alias “Sarah” to protect her privacy. “She wasn’t begging or bugging me, and she wasn’t handing me a Bible and she wasn’t trying to change me, she was trying to help me.”
    Eventually, Sarah showed up at the Friendship Community Church, where Stevens’ husband Todd is a pastor. Soon after that, another churchgoer found her a new job and Sarah quit doffing her duds for cash.
    “I decided I would never go back [to stripping],” she said. “I took a leap of faith and just put my trust in God 100 percent.”

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    Default Re: Strip Church brings food to strippers

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/17...d-their-pasts/
    https://www.facebook.com/stripchurch

    LOL, it cost $700 to attend a seminar to teach you how to counsel strippers out of the industry. What a bunch of crock shit LMFAO. After the initial training, you have to pay a $50 annual fee and go from strip club to strip club "helping" strippers. They also have this cute little diagram on their FB page showing how many stripclubs are in each state. This is a get rich quick scheme charging people $700 for a training course!! LOL, and they judge us!!

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    In theory it's a good idea because some strippers are lost or would love a homemade meal However, we all can see the true point of this and it's that strippers are streetwalkers trapped in the life. This is true of some but not all (and I hope not most).

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    I would be super offended, too. They don't only bring food. They bring little gift bags with hideous jewelry and cheap lipgloss lol. I'm stalking their FB page as we speak.

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    Lol, what? Feed the strippers? This makes me feel like a godless stray cat.

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    I think this would open a door for some sick fuck too go too the seminar and then prey on the more fragile girls.

    What form of professional credentials do these people have other than going too a seminar?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tuesdaymarie View Post
    Lol, what? Feed the strippers? This makes me feel like a godless stray cat.
    LMAO, we now have the trifecta: church ladies, stray cats and strippers, a perfect combination!

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    I think this would open a door for some sick fuck too go too the seminar and then prey on the more fragile girls.

    What form of professional credentials do these people have other than going too a seminar?

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    A group like this came into a club I worked at right when I first started there. It was only my 2nd or 3rd shift, I was like, wtf? Does this happen all the time?! I never saw them after that, though. It was basically like the article said. They brought tiny cheap little "gift bags" with nail polish and candy bars and they brought in a cake and some tray of food. There were about 4 or 5 of them, and I was most thrown by how nice the girls were to them. They must've come in all the time at some point because, like the article says, they just asked about the girl kids, the girls would talk to them for a little bit, thank them, and they would leave. There wasn't even religious outreach stuff in the gift baggies. It was bizarre.
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    Religious types love the vicarious thrill of being among the fallen and the sinners. It's how they get their rocks off!

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    They used to come in every Saturday night in OKC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sarah101 View Post
    LMAO, we now have the trifecta: church ladies, stray cats and strippers, a perfect combination!
    A dancer could work this by dressing as a church lady and dancing to the Stray Cats.

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    From a status on their Facebook:

    "Where can you find sunshine, the Pacific Ocean, strip clubs, and a bunch of awesome women who love Jesus? At Strip Church Training in San Diego, of course!"

    “The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around like rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Noelle_Noir View Post
    I think this would open a door for some sick fuck too go too the seminar and then prey on the more fragile girls.

    What form of professional credentials do these people have other than going too a seminar?
    That's exactly what they are doing; looking and praying (pun intended) on the fragile ones so they can convert them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arielbriel View Post
    I would be super offended, too. They don't only bring food. They bring little gift bags with hideous jewelry and cheap lipgloss lol. I'm stalking their FB page as we speak.
    So $700 per person to learn how to talk to people about their lives and give out small giftbags containing items easily worth under $5? Then a $50 recurring fee?

    Love their greatest success was giving out $150 of Mary Kay products. Prob one housewife's starter package from her basement that hit expiry.

    roflmao. No wonder people flock to the "help out people in the industry" uh industry, it is lucrative - a way to be in the industry without being in the industry and yet still earn industry money. Lol what a hustle.

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    Religious types love the vicarious thrill of being among the fallen and the sinners. It's how they get their rocks off!
    This scathing truth.



    This is so funny, thanks for posting.





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    So how many stumps can you fit in your pussy?

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    lol feed the strippers ..? who are making much more than the average joe , and can probably afford any food item we wanted? this cracks me up!! and as for the stripper who quit, im glad she's happy now but i believe you can still be a "church goer" or a christian and strip. the TWO AREN'T MUTUALLY EXLUSIVE! this makes me pretty angry actually

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    I used to work at a club where a church group would come in and bring Church brochures etc and hassle the dancers. This was a busy club and their "efforts" were not appreciated .
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    They sound nuts. But where were they when I was traveling and dancing ? Haha. I'd probably have eaten anything she brought.

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    Correction, someone posted that it cost $700 but I think it was for the whole trip. The seminar costs $250 for a "leader" and $150 for each "team member" they bring. Still a shit load of money..and pretty exploitive to me. Plus the $50 yearly fee and whenever they go out to the clubs, they use their own money to put together the cheap ass bags. LOL. Im having too much fun reading their FB posts. They also have XXXchurch in which they target porn stars and porn addicts lol.This is just too good !

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    I think it is a nice thing. Maybe I am crazy.

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    The Living Room in Dayton had people like this come in every Wednesday (or used to haven't been there in a min) I never helped myself since it all had meat products in it and I'm a veggie lol

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    We had a similar thing in London, the Salvation army started coming in every week wanting to offer us chaplaincy. They were nice enough women but girls go to work to earn money not engage in counselling.

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    I've had some run ins with local chapters of this organization. I was offended by them. In the gift bags there were cards with statistics that said 95% of girls wouldn't dance if they had any other choice. It also said that the vast majority of us were victims of abuse and moonlighted as hookers. Plus, my lip gloss wasn't even sealed--pretty sure it had been previously used. But, a few months later I found out that one of the girls at my club contacted them and they helped her escape from a psychotic boyfriend who was forcing her to dance and keeping her $. They paid her rent, put her in schools and got her a lawyer who was able to get her full custody of the kid. Anyway, still think the message is a little offensive, but at least they do help some people out...

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    If those church people really want to help adult industry workers, then they should give us lots of $$$$$. Empty those church coffers into our pockets! Check this out, "Wealth of Roman Catholic Church Impossible to Calculate": http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03...-to-calculate/

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    ^Agreed! I'm sure we've all encountered the occasional stripper at our clubs with pimps/excessive drug issues/etc. who could use the help of this organization, but it's still offensive that they're represented as the majority when in fact they're definitely in the minority, as far as I've witnessed. Of all of the jobs I've had, there's only one I preferred to stripping - the others were crap. The worst verbal assault I've had to deal with from a customer was in a pharmacy, as was the worst conflict I've ever had with a coworker. There are ALWAYS other choices - even if they're flipping burgers at McDonalds. Most of us choose this over any other options for the money, the freedom and the control - but I suppose by their statistics, we're in the 5%? They probably pulled this figure from one of the many biased studies on sex industry workers, that have been published with survey populations as low as 12 girls, or populations of girls who work in dives in the Midwest, thus don't provide an accurate representation of strippers in major cities. I can't even believe that some of the junk papers I've seen on sex industry workers were even passed through peer review.
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