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“We don’t think it’s a sin to be pretty,” JC’s Girls founder Heather Veitch told XBiz. Veitch, a former stripper and softcore performer, appears on the site with a bustier, Bible and crucifix. Two other ministry leaders appear in similar glamour poses.

“I wanted the look of our website to reflect the people we are reaching out to,” she said.

Veitch converted to Christianity six years ago, she said. The idea for a ministry began two years ago and Matthew’s House, a church-based outreach program, was launched this spring.

“What we hope is that you, as an adult performer, could come to our church and then start a relationship with God and have him guide you through your life and have him tell you what you should and shouldn’t do,” Veitch said.

In that spirit Veitch has been working with porn blogger James DiGiorgio, who has also been the “porn insider” in a recent documentary about Christian porn outreach program XXXChurch.com.

JC’s Girls is a web ministry, Veitch said, and Matthew’s House is currently offered through the Sandals Church in Riverside. Matthew’s House also caters to strippers from local establishments. Veitch hopes to persuade other churches to sponsor Matthew’s Houses of their own.

While Veitch said that the JC’s Girls ministry is not judgmental of the adult industry, she said that her “main hope in this ministry is to let people know that there has never been anything that they have done that God would not forgive them for if they asked him with a sincere heart.”

Veitch draws a distinction between XXXChurch.com and JC’s Girls in that her program, though it does offer advice for porn-addicted men, is currently female-focused.

“[But] we are willing to allow anyone through our doors with a sincere heart,” she said.