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UPCOMING EVENTS
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August 22 9:00 am
Shelley speaks at My Church in Columbus, Georgia. More info at
October 23 & 24 6:00 pm
Shelley will share her testimony and speak on the harms of pornography at Cornerstone Church in Fresno, California. Visit www.cornerstonefresno.com for more info.
From porn conventions to fighting porn in court to rescuing women and men out of the sex industry and helping porn addicts, Shelley is relentless in her efforts and needs your support!
Please pray daily for her and her family and Pink Cross team members. Please give financially so she can continue this very important and historical work!
Together we are making a difference and changing history!
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Volunteers needed in many areas! Sign up here and see where you fit at Pink Cross!
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Pink Cross is growing so fast and many women and men are contacting us for help DAILY.
We are the only organization that continuously focuses on helping women and men get out of and recover from porn as well as fight porn in the court system so we REALLY need your help financially.
We also send missionaries all over the country to raise awareness about the harms of pornography, spread the Gospel, and reach out at porn conventions to porn stars and porn fans with love AND truth.
To say it boldly, we do it all!
But we really NEED your support. Churches are often too afraid to get involved so we rely solely on caring and compassionate individuals like yourself.
We thank you for being part of this great move of God and we speak a HUGE blessing over you for your generous gift!
You may donate securely online below:  We sincerely thank you for caring! You may also send donations to our address below: Pink Cross FoundationPMB Box 336077 Coffee Rd 4Bakersfield, Calif. 93308
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Pink Cross Foundation August Newsletter
August 2010
"Never, never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
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Greetings!
In this newsletter you will read about Marcy and Amber who are survivors of the destructive porn industry. You will read about the terrible pain and trauma they experienced while being trapped in the porn industry. By the grace of God they have been set free but now they need our help to rebuild their lives. There are also countless others who are still trapped in the porn industry and Pink Cross Foundation may be their last hope. We really need your help to continue this ministry, now like never before.
With the economic uncertainty of this time, donations to the Pink Cross are down dramatically. Yet, we know with no uncertainty that porn continues to spread and destroy lives. Yes, porn kills. Porn is a modern day disaster of epidemic proportions. It is an emergency situation.
The needs here at the Pink Cross are many. Will you join us? We need you! We need funds to continue to help men and women as well as move into a new building. We can't continue this worldwide fight against pornography without you.
May it be said of this generation that we saw the human need and rose up to action so that many people might be saved and truly live!
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Pink Cross Outreach to Porn Stars and Porn Addicts at Exxxotica LA
Exxxotica LA Expo brought out the stars and Pink Cross handed out the truth in love, offering prayers and free gifts to thousands of porn stars and porn fans. What a weekend of God's Favor!
Some of the highlights include when Pink Cross went up on stage where they threw out free gifts to the crowd while Shelley preached Jesus Christ and His love. "You were made for greater things than porn," she shouted from the microphone to fans and stars at the porn convention. "Jesus Christ loves you and has a plan for your life!" She also shared some of her testimony and it definitely got their attention.
Even the DJ was touched and wanted the life that Jesus offers, so Shelley stretched her hands toward him to bless him. Boy was he surprised! But the people loved it and after she preached they followed Pink Cross over to our booth where we handed out MORE FREE STUFF!
Back at the Pink Cross booth Jan stood on a chair throwing out t-shirts to enthusiastic fans while Pink Cross team members handed out Gospel Tracts telling fans and porn stars that Jesus loves them. Rarely was prayer declined when offered to them. People are hungry for God and intimacy.
One porn star was so touched after Shelley preached that she started preaching herself about Jesus Christ which you can see a video clip here. The whole atmosphere changed after Shelley and her team went on stage and the Favor and Love of God hit that place and the life of Christ flowed into thousands of hurting lives giving them new hope and a promise of a better life.
Other highlights include two Chaplains joining us Saturday to pray for us and join us in outreach. This was the first year there were more men than women reaching out! Go Pink Cross men!
Saturday morning Pastor Chadwick offered communion to Pink Cross team members. It was an awesome moment and probably a first time that has ever happened in a porn convention. Then two Christians representing their home church came inside the porn convention just to encourage Pink Cross and pray for us. Wow. It made a huge difference to know that churches support us and care about our mission. We hope more churches will get on board and help us continue to spread the Gospel in the porn conventions!
By day 3 we handed out almost all of our supplies including Bibles, Books, CD's, STD pamphlets, beauty supplies, goody bags and more to thousands of people! We ran out of Bibles by day 2 again. Everybody was profoundly touched by our generous outreach and the great love we shared. Surely the Lord showed up and blessed these people with His Goodness.
We look forward to the next convention at AdultCon in September 10-12. We've been invited back and we are definitely taking them up on their offer. We're out of a lot of supplies now so we're REALLY going to need your help to make this next convention a success. Please help us continue reaching out to these precious people and donate securely online

We sincerely thank you for caring! You may also send donations to our address below:
Pink Cross Foundation PMB Box 33 6077 Coffee Rd 4 Bakersfield, Calif. 93308
Or if you prefer sending supplies please visit our wish list on Amazon to see what our needs are by clicking below: (Pink Cross Foundation is a Nonprofit Corporation in the state of California and is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions to the Pink Cross Foundation, a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, are entirely tax-deductible. We will send out receipts the end of the year. Our tax id number 80-0142359.) |
Former Porn Star Jessie Jewels Story
My name is Amber, also known as Jessie Jewels, and I made 6 xxx movies in 2005. During that time I was subjected to as much hard alcohol as I wanted, usually more than I asked for, I've been drugged with ruffian, I was supplied with and snorted unlimited cocaine (for the first time ever by the way), and was supplied with unlimited amounts of prescription pain killers, relaxers, antidepressant pills.
Brandon Iron was extremely aggressive when it came to trying to change what was not apart of the original contract. I was only suppose to do a solo scene however when I got there he was very pushy. Keep in mind I just turned 19 years old, I arrive alone when there should of been some other girls there so he said wrapping up other scenes, doing makeup, etc. along with an entire camera crew. Well, it was just us. Of course, many girls in general but especially in porn, we should know better then to trust a pornographic director however, in our defense nobody, not anyone has the right to violate your rights, mislead you, misguide you and under verbal contract intentionally lie to you. Please do keep in my age especially, I was 19 years old. Do you really think he thought I would know any different? I doubt that. So try to understand I was naive and had no idea the manipulation this man had planned on.
First thing, gives a cocktail beverage on the scene. I took it. I was nervous as hell and knew by looking at him that I was going to need it just to get through my solo scene. He had me sign a consent without explaining it the way it should of been. He completely made it seem like no big deal and oh its just legal jumbo that says you need to be 18. Pressure pressure pressure. I said I'm doing a solo scene for this much and that's it. He said sure. Just sign the bottom.
I knew very little, if that, nothing, about what I was signing. Well if I knew just by looking that I was signing a legal document with Satan maybe I would of stopped, but he deceived me. Brandon Iron lied to me to make sure his evil and selfish needs were met. He took advantage of young girl who knew nothing. If I could afford a lawyer I would of sued him for all his worth. This man pressured me repeatedly. I said no after no after no after no. He continued to pour me alcohol beverages one after the next. His intentions were morally wrong. He deserves to be in prison, but because of who he is in the industry, because I was just another "broken-home porn whore" to him, he didn't stop when he should of never started. Giving alcohol to a minor is illegal period. Slipping illegal drugs into a minor drink and forcing her to have any type of sexual foul play is 100% against the law in the State of California.
This 40 something year old man made me and told me that I had to submit to his sexual movie rules. I said no. I was unwilling. I know my rights. However from what I remember right before everything went blank was his tone of voice and threatening my life, verbally assaulting me, and having my mouth covered by his hand in an extremely forceful manner. I blacked out after that. Woke up in my car with the cash amount originally promised.
I have a very blurry and distorted vision of that day. However soon enough after my visions were coming back, a movie which I never agreed to partake in came out. I can't even tell you how violated and wronged inside I've been. To watch yourself in a PORN MOVIE for the whole world to see, when you were terribly violated and don't remember at all what your doing and you just know by watching this was not you. It was someone else. You know it isn't you. That is unjust and so unfair. He deserves to be punished for breaking so many laws and for his internal immorality.
All I knew was what the agency (MetroTalentManagement.com) and I agreed on which was one solo foot fetish scene and it turned into more than that I found out later when the movies came out. I was sexually violated while being drugged by the director/producer Brandon Iron.
I am a strong person. I do not know why or how I ended up getting into porn. Maybe a lack of self worth at that time, financially incapable of supporting myself and been given this glossy option by a deceiving agency during a time I was lost, weak and hopeless. Regardless of the reason, pornography is destroying so many lives in the US Country. We are raising a nation to be ok with abuse and violence. I knew nothing about porn before I did it. And unlike the average porn star I quit. I left and I took what was left of me. So many, too many and almost all of them who get started become a slave to porn industry with no hope or any other skills to get out. Most of them pick up drug and alcohol addiction, pick up diseases such as AIDS and HIV. The pain occurred is very hard to repair. Most of them stay because recovery is too hard.
These porn companies deceive young girls. They lie. They catch them when they are weak and no nothing about life. I look back on this painful past and see a bunch of deceivers. Liars. Old men condoning to young girls, teenagers, I was a teenager girl, to alcohol, pain killers, cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, any type of prescription drug is sold to these girls for whatever they want. Just go to a doctors office in the "Valley". It's disturbing. An unheard epidemic of pain and suffering these girls are trapped in.
PORN IS DESTROYING OUR NATION.
Amber
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Porn and the Demonic Realm
by former porn actress April Garris A few months after I became saved, and before I became involved with the Pink Cross Foundation, the Lord put a burden on my heart for those involved in porn. He moved my heart to start praying for them....to desperately cry out to Him for their salvation.
It was during one of these prayer sessions that the Lord literally opened my eyes to see and understand the demonic reality that exists in the midst of the porn industry. It does not exist "behind-the scenes" nor has it "infiltrated" the industry - It completely controls the inner workings and has power over those involved.
The Lord gave me a very powerful vision of one of the porn shoots that I had worked on, involving a major mainstream porn company and numerous people. I recalled what took place in the scene, as I visualized myself having hardcore sex, and the people all around me. As I was praying, the Lord literally opened my eyes and gave me a glimpse into the spiritual reality that existed around me, but at the time I was too blind to see or comprehend. I saw this scene from a completely different perspective, with spiritual insight to the reality of what went on around me.
In 2 Kings 6, the prophet Elisha prays to the Lord that the eyes of his servant may be opened, so that he may see the spiritual realities surrounding them. Elisha's words to his servant were validated when God let him see the spiritual realities that lay beyond normal human sight. In much the same way, God opened my own eyes and gave me a glimpse into the demonic realm that controls the porn industry.
In my own vision, I saw a room literally filled with demons. The people involved in the production of the video, including myself, were completely oblivious to this horrific reality - the total demonic regime which was present. The demons themselves were doing various things. Some of them were watching us have sex. Others were roaming around the room, sort of "patrolling" it. Others were "standing guard," like a soldier guarding his post. It was then that the Lord revealed to me what I had exposed myself to during my time in porn, and how He had protected me.
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Slave Master
How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
Pornography wants you, it wants your husband or wife, it wants your son and daughter, your grandchildren, and your in-laws. It doesn't share well, and it doesn't leave easily. It is a cruel master, and seeks more slaves. Abraham Lincoln, when he faced a similar war over freedom, said, "If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage." All hands on deck. The battle is on for sanity and serenity, for peace and prosperity, for today, and for all our tomorrows.
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Porn isn't as bad as you think it is...
There is no end in sight to porn's ever increasing abuse and destruction of women all in the name of pleasure profits. And it will continue as long as it can operate in the shadows where the light of day and the public do not see the abuse. Women are being prodded, poked, tied up, hung upside-down, shocked, whipped, gagged, shackled, even put into medieval stocks! This cruel and unusual punishment is defined as a 'fetish' in the porn world but it surely cannot be tolerated by a society if it claims to be healthy...
The porn industry really hates it when pictures like this are shown outside of porn websites where anybody other than jaded porn addicts see them. They don't want porn to be seen for what it truly is. They claim it's harmless fantasy. Don't believe the lie. We know the hardcore truth. We know the abuse is all too real. |
Former Porn Star Neesa
I was silly, happy and outgoing little girl. My mother taught me good values and I knew my dad loved me in his own way. I also had two older brothers. When I was in the 4th grade, my parents divorced and my whole world crashed. My brother who was 2 years older than me began to abuse me physically and mentally. I remember thinking that the abuse from my brother was normal. I just accepted it. If a friend came over, he would scream at me and get violent. Eventually, none of my friends wanted to come over anymore. He was finally sent to live with my Dad when I was around 16. My mother fell apart because of it and became an alcoholic. I had to go live with a family friend in order to help my mom deal with the trauma of everything going on around her. Through all this drama, I was still a "good girl" during my teens. I kept all the rules at home and school. I never broke curfew and stayed a virgin until I was 18. I didn't kiss a boy until I was 16 years old and he eventually broke my heart. He knew I wouldn't go past the kissing stage with him so he decided to have sex with my best friend instead. I didn't date again until I was 18. I was too brokenhearted. (That's probably why I still feel like if I don't have sex with a guy, he's not going to want to be with me. I've tried making them wait. They don't stick around more than a month so I feel like I always have to sex in order to keep a guy. ) I began to act rebellious and started hanging out with the "Goths". I became a popular metal head/goth girl. I even started doing phone sex a month before I graduated high school right when I turned 18. It was my first job. That was the beginning of my sex work lifestyle. I went into stripping at 20 years old when I was lured in by a female hairdresser who probably got kickbacks for finding girls. I was dancing at a club and the club photographer came in and asked to shoot naked photos of me for magazines. Then it went to shooting me with another girl in magazines and then it was me and guys in magazines and then it turned into solo videos, girl/girl videos and boy/girl videos and a few shoots with me and multiple performers. It was a progression that finally led me into the porn industry.
I worked in porn for 10 years with breaks in between. My work name was Neesa and I did about 27 movies. My last shoot was November 2006. It was a very abusive, frightening and unsanitary experience for me. They reuse dirty sex toys all the time on porn sets. Most of the time, the companies don't want to purchase a new sex toy. Which start at $10. That's how cheap they are. I always saw girls that had sore vaginas. We would want to take a bigger break to try to regain our composure after enduring painful scenes, but the directors, camera men, etc., would stress that they "needed to get of there as soon as possible". And the company wouldn't want them to have to pay their employees extra time. So, most the time, there wasn't time for a shower to take after shoots. Not to mention doing shoots on couches that they used for other shoots. I doubt they paid to clean it after each time it got used.
In the worst scene and moment of my life, I was raped and verbally and mentally abused while making a video with Max Hardcore. It was the most horrible and degrading experience I ever had. I was in complete shock and horror. After that scene was shot, I got tested at AIM (Adult Industry Medical Clinic). I was horrified to find out that I was positive with Chlamydia/Gonorrhea in the throat. We didn't have vaginal or anal sex because my HIV test wasn't ready yet. So he insisted on an oral scene and right after that scene I tested positive for the two STD's. I called Dr. Sharon Mitchell to let her know. She asked Max to come in and test. I'm sure she told him which girl, and what the diseases were, even before he came in. Of course he would take Zithromax before he got retested as Sharon wouldn't want to lose one of her biggest clients. They care about money. That's it. Sharon Mitchell called me after he tested and called me a liar. "He didn't give it to you. His test came back negative". She said in a rude, ambivalent manner. This is the clinic that claims to keep us safe. It's a joke.
I left porn 3 ½ years ago because I just couldn't do it anymore, especially after the rape. I found out about The Pink Cross Foundation at a booth at AVN. I think very highly of The Pink Cross team and Shelley Lubben. They have taught me important information about the industry that I should have known before I even got in. They treat me like I am human. They are very caring. Shelley sends me care packages often. And they are filled with love, information, great books.etc. It put tears in my eyes. I felt so loved. It had been a long time since someone loved me like that. She and the organization don't force religion on anyone. I went to her and she treats me with love and respect. I like being around girls that are just like me - FORMER porn actresses. I am very thankful for Shelley's team and all of their prayers.
Since I met Shelley and heard that God has a plan for my life, I decided to leave the sex business for good. I have been stripping to make ends meet but now I know that God is with me and wants me to leave. I went to school for being a dental assistant so I am going to try and get a job. It's not easy right now because I know I have some health issues to deal with because of everything I've done. But I feel God really working in my life so Im not going to give up. Please pray for me. Love, Marcy |
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About Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation
Shelley Lubben is an American Missionary.
Shelley Lubben is a wife and mother, ordained Chaplain and 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.
Shelley began working with adult industry workers in 2002 when she began volunteering as a teacher and counselor at local rescue missions and prisons in the State of California. She has worked at Madera Rescue Mission, Bakersfield Rescue Mission, Central California Women's Facility Prison, and Valley State Prison for Women.
Having a passion to reach out to adult industry workers all over the world, she was stirred to action and put up a web site in 2004 sharing her story and the truth about the abuse she experienced in the porn industry. Unprepared for the overwhelming response she would receive from the public, she realized something more had to be done about the destruction pornography was inflicting upon Americans and the world. She also realized, God had called her to expose the filthy and abusive porn industry and to be unafraid and unrelenting.
Inspired by the Spirit of God, she and her husband Garrett founded Pink Cross Foundation to reach out to adult industry workers offering emotional, financial and transitional support to those who want out of porn and also help for those struggling with pornography and other victims of pornography.
Shelley received her Bachelor's of Theology degree at Vision International University in California on December 7, 2009 and is an ordained Chaplain with the Order of Saint Martin.
Shelley has attended Pierce College in Tacoma Washington for her general academics, Wisdom For Life Leadership School in Tacoma Washington and Harvestime International Bible College where she received a Christian Workers Certificate in Biblical Studies in 2003. Shelley majors in Theology and minors in counseling and Creative Writing.
Shelley enjoys raising her daughters, gardening, web design, reading about great Reformers, inspiring people to never give up and is extremely involved in missionary and social work.
In addition, Shelley travels internationally and speaks on the negative effects of pornography urging people to stop contributing to the porn industry while also inspiring them to live the amazing lives God has for them.
To learn more about Shelley please visit her personal web site at www.shelleylubben.com or watch videos of Shelley speaking on the videos page.
Porn is not glamorous. Get the facts. Get help.
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