Vegas + Porn + Seattle Church =
our first run with having a group join us for a “mission trip” to Vegas. As some of you know we plan on doing ALL types of conventions in Las Vegas for churches to join us on a mission trip BUT the trials run happened to be the AVN porn show. Ryan Meeks (Sr. Pastor) and a great crew from EastLake Church in the Seattle area were the BEST group to have our first time through. Heather (groups leader @ EastLake) & I started working together to bring them down to join us just 2 short months ago. Their church got lit up to do this convention after Craig had been to their church to speak about porn and also about our ministry into this area. Be sure to check out www.xxxchurch.tv this week to watch the episode.
Some cool stuff that came out of the trip:
- 1 porn star has expressed a real desire to get out of the industry and has begun the process thanks to the ladies from Eastlake and the gals on our team
- Craig made a weird but promising new connection with an owner of a brothel that wants us to come there and share Christ and serve the girls
- Jake made an in-road with a porn exec. that wants to talk about faith, his mom being a pastor and have an ongoing conversation.
- the first trip went off with out any major snafoo’s & the team learned to share their faith on the convention floor — watch out EastLake! I have a suspicion that you are going to be doing some cool new things when these people get back and going.
- Stephen did a great job avoiding accidents… barely. (Heather & Stephen, it will be the year of the Ryan!)
While I love Stephen – I definitely think the saner move is the year of the Ryan! Thanks so much for all your help Ryan – we had such a great time and already miss everyone from XXX!