Christian Newswire — Heather Veitch, the x-stripper turned Christian evangelist to the sex industry has revealed 24 year old porn star Sophia Lynn [pictured] has left the sex business and taken a job as a secretary at a South Dakota Church.
Key to Sophia’s decision, is Pastor Keith Loy of Celebrates Community Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His church will provide Ms. Lynn with a place to live and a college scholarship in addition to a job at their church office.
“This is like a dream,” says Lynn from her new home in South Dakota. I hope I don’t have to wake up from this. I feel like my life has been saved.”
Ms Veitch, whose ministry is JCsGirls.com, says there are many girls who want to leave the business, but it is a very tough task. “It takes the kind of commitment we’re seeing from Celebrates Community Church. This is the story of the little church that could.”
Celebrates Community Church became interested in Sophia Lynn when she appeared on an ABCnews report. They invited her to come to their church, but without success. In her place, they found Heather Veitch who flew to South Dakota and spent a weekend educating the church to the size and scope of America’s sex industry. At a Sunday service, Veitch told the congregation the first step toward helping girls like Sophia Lynn is to pray for them. They did.
“3 Weeks later, my phone rang and it was Sophia,” Veitch explains. “She told me she was ready to make a real life change and wanted some real help. I called Pastor Loy and told him God held up his end, so now what are we going to do?”
Loy phoned Heather Veitch back the following morning at 6 a.m. and said “we’re ready to take this on.” Six hours later, Sophia Lynn was on a plane to a new life in South Dakota.
“We’re not going to play church anymore,” says Pastor Loy. We’re going to be a church.”
Vietch, whose struggle to start her ministry is depicted in the documentary “The Pussycat Preacher,” says she is calling for other churches to follow the Celebrate Community Church example. ” I’m calling it ‘One Church For One Girl’ program.”
Veitch will be at the Nashville Film Festival April 20th to host a screening of “The Pussycat Preacher.”