Ex-Stripper Spreads Gospel to Those in Sex Industry

"I don't try to change their life," she said of the women she seeks out at strip clubs. "I just want them to have a relationship with God."

The DJ then throws a curveball: Isn't it a sin to strip?

"It is a sin to strip," she answered quickly, adding, "But it's OK to strip for your husband." Veitch then makes an on-air confession. "I strip for my husband," she said with a wide smile, "and I teach women in my church how to do it too."

She has been called the pin-up preacher and porn again. On Thursday she was introduced on evangelist Pat Robertson's "The 700 Club" as a "holy hottie."

Veitch describes herself simply as an evangelist, the head of a trio of missionaries called JC's Girls Girls Girls.

Every month, JC's Girls (JC is for Jesus Christ) and a few female volunteer church members visit strip clubs, where they pay for lap dances. While alone with a stripper in a booth, they forgo the dance and share the Gospel.

In January, JC's Girls went to Las Vegas for the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, regarded as the nation's largest trade show in the porn business, and handed out more than 200 Bibles wrapped in "Holy Hottie" T-shirts.

Veitch, 31, who was a stripper for four years, founded the outreach ministry last March.

A few months later, she and fellow member Lori Albee launched an edgy website -- www.jcsgirls.com -- that trades on the sex appeal of JC's Girls to attract visitors. Against a violet background, provocative appeals appear: "If you are a CHRISTIAN

None of this caused much of a stir until the Daily Telegraph in England published a story on the ministry Dec. 5. The phone has not stopped ringing since then.

Veitch has been profiled in newspapers and on radio and has made the rounds of network and cable television.

She has appeared on tabloid TV, but this week's appearance on "The 700 Club" took her straight into Christian homes. Robertson's show drew an average of 863,000 viewers a day during the 2004-05 television season, Nielsen Media Research said.

And the offers keep pouring in: movies, books, reality shows, more documentaries. Veitch sees a higher purpose in all the publicity. "Every time I go on a radio station," she said, "I'm spreading God's message."