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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 and Christian organizations are often afraid to get involved so we rely solely on caring and compassionate individuals like yourself. (Even though over 50% pastors admit to struggling with porn - Covenant Eyes porn statistics) If your church is bold enough to join us, then please let us know immediately at info@thepinkcross.org We need churches to sponsor us as missionaries 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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As 2010 draws to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our faithful supporters who have generously donated to us throughout the past year. We are truly grateful for your continued support, as none of what was accomplished could have been done without your prayers and financial support.
With the new year quickly approaching, we humbly ask those of you who have been so faithful to support this cause to please consider making a final year-end, tax-deductible donation to help us move forward in this crucial fight against porn, and the rescue of men and women still trapped in this abusive and deadly industry. The Lord has been moving powerfully through our efforts, but we really need your help to continue. We are preparing for our biggest outreach yet, as ex-porn stars and missionaries from all across the country are flying into Las Vegas to minister at the Adult Expo Convention.
We are confident that this will be our most powerful outreach to date. Renowned author and pornography expert, Dr Judith Reisman, will be joining Shelley Lubben and the Pink Cross team to spread the hardcore truth to fans, and confront the pornographers who continue to propogate the lie that porn is glamorous. Dr Reisman's latest book, Sexual Sabotage, which explores the harmful ramifications of the sexualization of our culture, was published just months prior to the release of Shelley Lubben's Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn - and both women will be ministering together.
Our ministry team this year is bigger than it has ever been. Once again, we will be handing out Bibles, books, gospel and truth tracts, safety and health information, CDs, beauty supplies, and goody bags for the porn stars. We will also be giving away Shelley's new book, a $20 value, and her new CD, to the porn stars in attendance. This is the biggest and most expensive convention we have ever been involved in. God has faithfully provided for all of our expenses, but because of the massive cost this year, our funds are seriously depleted.
We are expecting more women and men than ever before to come to us after the convention, seeking help and a way out of porn. That is why we are humbly asking all of our faithful supporters to help us with a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. Perhaps you have wanted to support Pink Cross, but have been financially unable to do so. With the tax year drawing to a close, now is the perfect time to consider giving to this powerful work that the Lord is doing. All donations will receive a tax-deductible receipt.
Never has the porn industry been under so much scrutiny as it is now.
As God's people continue to rise up, the porn industry continues to be brought down. Please help us bring this fight to its inevitable end. Thank you, and God bless you.
(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.)
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Relevant Magazine Calls Shelley's New Book POWERFUL!
That's how Relevant magazine recently described Shelley's new book. Here is their full book review:
Shelley Lubben's new book, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn, could and should be in the running for most culturally relevant autobiographies for 2010. Every sex therapy counselor (secular or Christian), pastor, sex ed teacher and father should have a copy of Lubben's book on their shelf. One cannot deny the dense impact the sex industry has on the entire world, not to mention the deadly affect it has on the Church and her leaders. Considering that nearly every major cultural shift is in someway touched or affected by sex, it would take a very, very special story of life, death, and rebirth to not just address this worldwide addiction epidemic, but in every way to tear the lid off the can of lies that feeds the porn industry and it's brainwashed users. Lubben's book accomplishes all of that in spades.
Appropriately edited into six "Acts", "Truth" captures the gritty foundation of Lubben's life and struggle in the first two. Beginning with her childhood-negligent father, verbally/emotionally abusive mother, early childhood sexual abuse, teenage prostitution and stripping-the reader is quickly taken into the gut wrenching journey of a traumatic fall from grace. And just as the reader is catching their breath thinking, "It can't get any worse than this," it does.
Act Two introduces the public to a world so few truly know but yet are unfortunately all too aware of as consumers: the life (or near death) of a porn star. Shelley graphically depicts unimaginable physical, psychological and spiritual horrors even the most committed therapist would find inexplicable. She unflinchingly details everything from her first film, to contracting herpes, to being kidnapped by hustlers for sex slavery in brothels in Mexico (think the film Taken). The list and the shock and the pain continue. Yet, right when the dialogue gets to a point of no return: Jesus shows up and Hope is born.
What is remarkably intriguing about Shelley's story is not that she has lived to tell about it (thought that is a true miracle in and of itself), but it's the pure Hope and Faith that, albeit messy and unorthodox, stands as a monument upon the ash heap of Satan's attempt on her life. It's crystal clear that it is only by the power of Jesus Christ that she is alive today sharing her story and that truly is the saving Grace of her book.
Lubben gracefully walks the reader through the pain of experiencing true love from not only Jesus but from her future husband at the time, Garrett. She recounts the pain of unintentionally conceiving her first child by a "trick," her wedding day (court house, raining, black dress) and being unfaithful in her marriage and wondering whether she conceived another child in adultery.
Thankfully, the story does not end there. It would have been very easy for her to "sell the dirt" on the porn industry and simply write a near graphic novel about the sex trade and probably make a lot of money off of that. She doesn't. She keeps the dialogue going, detailing how Jesus has healed her family and how they started The Pink Cross Foundation, which offers adult industry workers emotional, financial and transitional support.
While "easy" to read, Truth is by no means easy on the heart. Something profoundly deep, emotional and spiritual is exchanged when reading it. Pace yourself with a strong cup of coffee. Absorb the words. Let them sink to the depths of your soul. Mourn over the truth. Then pray. Pray first for yourself that any blinders would come off regarding pornography. Second, pray for Shelley, her family and her ministry. Third, pray that pornography would once and for all be destroyed: forever.
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About Shelley
 Shelley Lynn Lubben, born on the heels of revolution on May 18, 1968, is one of the world's leading advocates in the antipornography movement. A former pornographic actress who performed under the stage name of Roxy, she left the sex industry in 1994 when she caught Genital Herpes, a non-curable disease. Upon her eight year recovery at the Champion's Centre in Tacoma, Washington, she reentered society as a new Champion woman and began teaching and preaching in prisons and rescue missions in Central California. Ordained as a Chaplain with the Order of Saint Martin, Shelley is also a graduate of Vision International University where she received a Bachelor's degree in Theological Studies. Now, fifteen years into recovery, Shelley has appeared on both Christian and secular television and radio shows and speaks out passionately about the harms of pornography as well as shares her inspirational story of redemption through Jesus Christ. Shelley also serves as the Executive Director of Pink Cross Foundation, a nonprofit organization that offers hope, healing and support to adult industry workers around the world. Shelley Lubben is sought worldwide to speak, educate, testify, and counsel individuals, organizations, professionals and governments regarding the illegally operating porn industry, pornography addiction, recovery from sexual abuse and the sex industry and the Champion life. Shelley is a mother of three beautiful daughters and married to Mr. Wonderful, Garrett Lubben, for fifteen years. 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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