{"id":10652,"date":"2010-11-15T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10652"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:22:43","slug":"hookers-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/hookers-for-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hookers for Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Meet Annie Lobert — a former prostitute with a singular mission: saving Las Vegas hookers.<\/p>\n

Lobert, and her faith-based mission — which she calls “Hookers for Jesus” — are the focus of “Hookers: Saved on the Strip,” a three-part series premiering Dec. 8 on Investigation Discovery.<\/p>\n

“When I used to get arrested and the vice [cops] called me a ‘hooker,’ it really offended me,” Lobert told The Post. “So one day I was thinking, if I was reaching out to women and starting to go into casinos and saying, ‘I can help you change your life,’ and calling myself Annie, it would be a weird thing — ‘Annie Lobert’s Reach Out.’<\/p>\n

“So I figured Hookers for Jesus. I believe in God, for one, and I was a hooker and now I go and fish for people [to save].”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The evangelism potential of someone turning from a life that is less than entirely compatible with Christian principles is enormous: one day, perhaps we\u2019ll see \u201cBishops for Jesus\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here: Meet Annie Lobert — a former prostitute with a singular mission: saving Las Vegas hookers. Lobert, and her faith-based mission — which she calls “Hookers for Jesus” — are the focus of “Hookers: Saved on the Strip,” a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[2135,869],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelism","tag-evangelism","tag-hookers-for-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}