Pink Cross Foundation
In this issue...
Adult Film Industry: Time to Regulate?
Porn Star Sierra Sinn Returns Home
Dungeon Outreach Update
Events
Shelley speaking at Source de Vie pour les Nations Church
864 Sainte-Catherine Street Quebec, Montreal Canada on August 2, 7 pm and August 3, 10 am and 1 pm.

Shelley and Jan,
former porn star, speaking at First Family Church on Aug. 31
7700 W. 143rd St.
Overland Park, KS
66223
Service times:
8 am, 9 am, 10:45 am and 6 pm

Please come and hear our stories and meet us!

Pink Cross Foundation at Exotic Erotic Expo October 24-26
More info coming!

Shelley speaks at Extreme Passion Convention on November 14 and 15 in Tucson, Arizona. More info coming soon!

To read more about Shelley's events click here.

 
Pink Cross Foundation July Newsletter
Outreaches in porn conventions, dungeons, and more!
July 2008
Dear Shelley,

This is the YEAR of outreaches for Pink Cross Foundation. We have done 5 outreaches and handed out thousands of beauty supplies, Bibles, truth about porn facts, CDs, hugs and more at porn conventions, a dungeon, sent over 200 care packages to porn stars and adult workers and now we are going to HUNDREDS of sex clubs in Montreal, Canada August 1-3. Less than 1% of people in Montrael, Quebec are evangelical Christians and prostitution is just as widely accepted there as hockey is!
 
We need your prayers and support to do this next outreach in Canada. We can't do it alone. A French Canadian news reporter told me what we are doing "has never been attempted in Quebec."

I will be speaking at Source de Vie pour les Nations Church at 864 Sainte-Catherine Street in Quebec, Montreal Canada on August 2, 7 pm and August 3, 10 am and 1 pm sharing my powerful testimony how I was able to escape the porn industry through the power of Jesus Christ.

Please help us reach these precious people who are trapped in the sex industry by donating below. We will be going out into the streets on Friday and Saturday night and want to hand out free gifts, my story translated into French and Bibles to the hundreds of girls trapped in the sex industry. It will cost me about $700 to offer these resources to the girls. We will also invite the girls to come and hear me speak at the church which is located RIGHT ON THE SAME STREET AS THE HUNDREDS OF SEX CLUBS!

Thank you so much for caring about women and men trapped in the sex industry.

Please pray for my assistant and I as we will need supernatural strength to do this. We have to wake up EARLY to travel and will be up 24 hours straight in order to minister to hundreds of prostitutes as well as speak at three services and minister to the people there too! I will also be equipping the church how to reach out to the sex workers and care for them during recovery. So, God has given me LOTS of work to do in Canada!

Please pray my voice remain strong and that God anoint every Word I speak. Please pray our Lord Jesus would heal and deliver all those we pray for. Please pray for the church to be empowered to continue the Lord's work in the sex industry after we leave. Pray for protection for my team and their family members. Please pray for God's Power to transform Montreal, Quebec and all of Canada!

Much love and blessings on you and your family,

Shelley Lubben, President



 
The Adult Film Industry
Time to Regulate?
by Corita R. Grudzen, Peter R. Kerndt

Corita Grudzen is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical
Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Peter Kerndt is the Director of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Program in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles,
California, United States of America.

The United States adult film industry produces 4,000-11,000 films and earns an estimated $9-$13 billion in gross revenues annually. An estimated 200 production companies employ 1,200-1,500 performers. Performers typically earn $400-$1,000 per shoot and are not compensated based on distribution or sales.

Los Angeles County is the largest center for adult film production worldwide. In 1988 the California Supreme Court, in People v. Freeman, found adult film production to be protected as free speech under the First Amendment, since such films were not considered obscene based on prevailing community standards. Unlike other legal but highly regulated activities such as gambling and commercial sex work in Nevada, the adult film industry was legalized in California through case law, not by statute, and has for the most part escaped governmental oversight.

Adult film performers engage in prolonged and repeated sexual acts with multiple sexual partners over short periods of time, creating ideal conditions for transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). All the more concerning, high-risk practices are on the rise.

To continue reading this insightful article click here.
Porn Star Sierra Sinn Returns Home
Update of Julie

Look what God and YOU did!

Julie, formerly known as Sierra Sinn, left porn on June 20, 2007 and after one year of working VERY hard to rebuild her life, she returned home to her family where she is united with her parents and raising her five year old daughter!

Thanks to many of you who donated to her recovery, we were able to stand along side of Julie and assist her with finding her a safe place to live, giving her food gift cards and encouraging her to never give up! One year later we were able to send her back home to her family!

If it wasn't for many of you donating toward Julie's recovery, she would not be where she's at today. We know God used your gift of giving to do miracles in Julie's life!

We want you to celebrate with us and watch this amazing video of Julie's recovery and her return to her family. YOU are part of her recovery too and we thank you sincerely for caring!

View a video of Julie by clicking here.
To read a blog on Julie's recovery click here.
 
Dungeon Outreach 
Pink Cross reaches out to S&M Community

I want to say a huge thank you to all of you who donated towards the Pink Cross Foundation Dungeon Outreach. Though it was one of the hardest outreaches to do, God strengthened our team and  we were able to hand out lots of love, books, free gifts and doses of truth!

Our hearts were so broken for these people because they were totally deceived by the lie of sadomasochism. I saw their precious lives being totally destroyed by a lie. Some were proud of their hideous scars they received from whippings. Some were boasting about their bizarre gadgets they invented to inflict pain. 
           
Some young female slaves were bragging they loved having very painful and horrible things being done to them but of course on the side they would tell us a different story. It was all I could do to keep my cool.  
            
Though their creativity was totally distorted I could see their amazing God-given giftings and I encouraged them that God had made them  very unique to do something special for Him.

Instead of condemn them, I proposed to them that their creative giftings were actually created by God to do something amazing for God and that if they used their giftings for God they would know overflowing joy. That they wouldn't have to be using their giftings in darkness anymore. That their giftings would bring joy to their lives and others, not pain.

I also spent quite a bit of time talking to them about their childhoods, how they got into BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadomasochism) and if they had peace in their lives? No one could answer yes to the peace question. Most had parents who were abusive or divorced.
             
One thing they mostly had in common was they were VERY lonely and I could see it in their eyes. No wonder they wanted to talk to us and be around us. We loved them, reached out to them in the darkness, showed them the light, told them they were made for greater things and some of them we held tightly and whispered GOD LOVES YOU AND HAS SOMETHING BETTER FOR YOU in their ears.
They needed to know that.               

To see pictures of us reaching out in the Dungeon click here.
You can click on pics to view the pictures on my Myspace.
 
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About Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation

Shelley Lubben is a mother, a missionary to the sex industry, fighter for truth and advocate for sex workers and porn performers who are abused by the adult industry. Shelley is also a former porn actress fighting tirelessly against the pornography industry which affects most of the world in a destructive way. Unrelenting in the cause of human rights, Shelley is passionate to educate people all around the world about the abusive and illegally operating porn industry as well as inspire the world to stop viewing pornography and stop contributing to the destruction of men and women who are being abused daily in the pornography industry.

Because of the huge epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, drugs and abuse towards adult industry workers and lack of help available, Shelley and her husband Garrett founded the Pink Cross Foundation , a non-profit organization created to reach out to adult industry workers offering emotional, financial and transitional support for those who want out of porn and the sex industry.

To learn more about the mission of Pink Cross Foundation please click here.
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