Programs and Services

Hookers for Jesus is an international, faith-based organization that addresses the realities of human sex trafficking, sexual violence, and exploitation linked to pornography and the sex industry. While we are committed to abolishing human sex trafficking on a global scale, our urban ministry outreach, community awareness, and transitional programs are based out of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The primary services and programs of Hookers for Jesus are mission driven and are designed to minister healing and restoration of individuals and families affected by sexual exploitation. The primary services of Hookers For Jesus is to Hook (Outreach), Help (Transitional Assistance), and Heal (full restoration) individuals & families. 
 

Our desire and goals include providing transitional support and assistance to the youth and women seeking to leave the sex industry. Our vision includes promoting spiritual, emotional, and physical wellness in the community and in the lives of those who have been affected by the adult entertainment industry. This mission is being communicated through a nationwide educational and marketing campaign targeted to both secular and faith-based audiences and organizations.

Hookers for Jesus is committed to our community! We desire to encourage economic development as well as personal, academic, and professional growth in every individual affected by the abuses of commercial sexual exploitation. Our goals include providing human services opportunities leading to self-sufficiency apart from a life in the sex industry. To that end, our priority plans include providing case management and support, individual health and wellness programs; skills assessment, retraining, and career development assistance; criminal justice support; juvenile offender mentorship; community awareness seminars and workshops; and human services programming.

The Keeping Innocent Sisters Safe Project is committed to working closely in support of prison chaplaincy and assisting the work of the church behind bars. We are currently working with the Southwest Prison Ministries team in effort to reach out to women incarcerated in the Clark County Detention Center. During our first five years of operation, our outreaches have included personal visitation, mentoring, Bible studies, cultural events, provision of literature for libraries, all designed to improve the quality of life behind bars.

In addition to ministering in the Clark County Detention Center, we are currently working with the Juvenile Public Defender’s Office and the Family Court specializing in providing services for underage prostitutes. Sadly, in 2007 alone, over 400 children were found working as prostitutes in Las Vegas during a single month. It has been reported that many girls are as young as 12 years old when they turn their first trick. Our focus includes intervention, as well as enjoying times of fellowship and teaching through personal visits and the Sister to Sister programs.

The vision of the ministry is to teach former and transitioning prostitutes to make positive life choices that enable them to maximize their potential. Our goal is a community in which every woman experiences a nurturing one-to-one relationship and support through the church. In turn, this establishes positive character traits and increases the young woman’s ability to make responsible decisions as involved members of our community.

We are currently working in partnership with The Church at South Las Vegas to provide a safe, clean, and sober home for women who are sincerely seeking to rebuild, reorganize, and reestablish their lives outside of a career in the sex industry. It is our desire to assist female sex workers by providing a safe, nonjudgmental environment with others like themselves who share a common past and desire for a brand new start. Our goal and purpose is to address the roots of behavioral patterns and lifestyle choices that hinder freedom and productivity in the lives of those seeking to leave the sex industry.

The Destiny Center is a designated safe house. The home is professionally protected with established state-of-the-art security and surveillance measures. In addition to offering short-term residential services, we assist women in emergency situations needing rescue and safe house accommodations. This assistance is offered on a short-term basis, only in life-threatening situations. Our programs and continuum of services are designed as a bridge to healing, self-sufficiency, and permanent housing.

Our unique residential facilities and programming is designed to address the whole person: spiritual, physical, and emotional. Services include individualized programs, professional counseling, nutrition education, fitness instruction, life-skills training, and educational opportunities. Our goal is to have each woman not only complete the six month program, but also discover purpose for her life and bring value to her community as a productive and responsible citizen.

For more information, please contact the Center at: destiny@hookersforjesus.net

Community Awareness

Hookers for Jesus provides a variety of services to individual clients and organizations throughout the United States and worldwide through speaking and participation in local and regional conferences, public debates, news conferences, church conferences, public school assemblies, educational trade shows, retreats and seminars, adult entertainment conventions, and county and statewide festivals and fairs. Our communications efforts include speaking opportunities and interviews provided through local, national, and international print publications, as well as radio and television broadcasts.

Additionally, we are developing the KiSS Encounter Women’s Conferences to be held in the Las Vegas area on an annual basis. These conferences are being established to assist and train men and women from across the nation to effectively reach out to the lost and hurting trapped in human sex trafficking. 

Overall, we are working to raise the awareness of local, national, and international civic and faith communities with educational resources outlining the harmful effects of pornography and involvement as professionals in and consumers of the sex industry. Our program focus is to educate and equip the church/schools to minister recovery and healing to lives already sexually broken by pornography, sexual addiction, and victimization.

Financial Support Network (FISHNet Fund)

Our networking efforts include developing opportunities nationwide to meet the practical and spiritual needs of men and women seeking to transition out of the sex industry. A vital part of our labors includes developing a monetary fund to support men and women seeking to be set free from the bondage of the sex industry. We are developing a rehabilitation program to provide financial support during the transitional period. Additionally, we have developed requirements and criteria for participation that will encourage completion of the program, ensuring self-sufficiency in the years to come.