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Events
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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.
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Pink Cross Foundation July Newsletter
Outreaches in porn conventions, dungeons, and more!
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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 
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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.
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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.
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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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Get Your Pink Cross T-Shirt Today!
Right
now we are offering a free Pink Cross T-Shirt as a gift
to anyone who donates $35 or more. (One per donation please.
S, M, L, XL, 2XL. Canada and US only) You may donate below
and email items@thepinkcross.org
with your name, size and address and we will send your
shirt out. Thank you SO MUCH for supporting Pink Cross
Foundation.  You may also send supplies and donations to
our address below:
Pink
Cross Foundation
PMB Box 33
6077 Coffee Rd 4
Bakersfield, Calif. 93308 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR MISSION WORK! |
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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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