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 abuse and trauma linked to professional and consumer involvement in the sex industry. In addition to the primary services of Rescue (Outreach), Redeem (Transitional Assistance), and Prevent (Community Awareness) being developed by the organization, operational programs include Marketing and Funding Development.
Rescue • Redeem • Prevent
Our desire and goals include providing transitional support and assistance to the women and youth 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 sexual trauma and related forms of abuse in and out of 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 and desires to encourage economic development as well as personal, academic, and professional growth. 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.
Keeping Innocent Sisters Safe- KISS Project
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 outreach plans include personal visitation, mentoring, in-prison seminars, Bible studies, special cultural events, provision of literature for libraries, and general projects designed to improve the quality of life in prison.
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 weekly 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.
Destiny Center Home for Women
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 unhealthy behavioral patterns and poor 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, biblically-based 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, church services, public debates, news 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 women from across the nation to effectively reach out to the lost and hurting trapped in human sex trafficking and working in the sex industry throughout the world.
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.
During the first five years of operation, our efforts include developing an extensive network of educational ministry opportunities established through the secular and faith community, schools, and civic clubs. During this time, we will write, produce, and publish, as well as compile and develop a comprehensive library and resource center to increase awareness and meet the educational, emotional, and spiritual needs of the sexually broken. Our message of awareness is one of grace and healing for both the victims and offenders caught in the trap of sexual abuse and addiction to pornography.
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.
Paraclete Service Support Network
We are providing case management services and developing an extensive support network to help anyone who wants to leave or escape the adult entertainment industry. It is our desire to minister to the heart of those caught up in this business. There is an urgent need to broaden a local assistance program for victims of pornography and sexual abuse — a coordinated means by which a victim can reach out confidentially and learn how to begin putting his or her life back together. In assisting the victims of pornography, we recognize the abuses and addictions as mere manifestations of deeper issues. Our focus is on restoration and redemption rather than condemnation.
Hookers for Jesus is conducting a comprehensive study and international research of faith-based ministries and organizations available to help men, women, and children through healing and transitioning out of the sex industry. First, we are working to identify national and international organizations, agencies, and individuals who are able to help victims of human sex trafficking. Second, we are linking these services to a common database and referral network. Third, we will create a toll-free warm line where callers will be linked to an effective referral and counseling service. Fourth, we will develop a comprehensive program to assist persons who want to leave the adult entertainment industry by offering skills assessment, employment retraining, and career counseling services. Finally, we will launch a public information campaign so this Paraclete Service Support Network is well known in the state of Nevada and in strategic areas throughout the country and around the world.
