Saturday Night at a Strip Club

October 13, 2008

Last night, about 7 of us from Faithful Soldier and Repent America director Michael Marcavage went to preach at a Philadelphia strip club, the Show & Tel, at about 9:30 pm. We used out sexual purity signs, which said things like “Flee Sexual Immorality!” and ones with explanations of what love is and isn’t. Caleb and Michael preached to the crowds of men going in for bachelor parties, groups of friends, also including women. It was a filthy, disgusting, vile place. I felt so sorry for the men going in and for the women working, who are treated like a piece of meat, made for nothing more than being a sexual object for perverted men to gawk at.

Soon after we got there, the owner came out with several employees and started mocking us and and laughing at us. He asked us girls if we wanted jobs there and said some other filthy things. It just showed us how little he respects women. We turned a few people away, saw a woman go in to work, and saw conviction on the face of many others. “I’m MARRIED!” Some of the men yelled at us, showing us the ring on their finger. We also preached to the bus drivers bringing loads of people here. “I’m only the driver!” One guy said. He told us he agreed with our message, but moments before he walked out of the club with a stack of porn magazines on a free rack inside the door.

Then some of the club employees came out with a hose and started “washing” the sidewalk where we were standing, “accidentally” spraying us, and washing the car we were standing next to. The police came and didn’t do anything about them spraying us. About 10 cops showed up. Michael did file a complaint with them about the guy with the hose. They also almost arrested Caleb for preaching. We left there around 11:20, but a lot of people saw our message and I talked to a slightly drunk woman for a while who said she agreed with our message, and that she was going to go in to get her friends out of there because it’s a horrible and disgusting place.

The police would not let us stand on the sidewalk infront of the building because that’s where the customers park, and they said we were blocking the business. We aren’t sure, but we’re going to look into it and see if there is a law against parking on the sidewalk. We asked Sgt. Mapp but all he said was “Hey, look, they’ve been doing this for years. They have a business to run. You don’t expect me to walk up and down here ticketing every car that’s illegally parked.” We left at about 11:20…

I will try to upload pics, and an update concerning the parking laws soon. Please pray that people will be ashamed of their sin and realize how they are ruining themselves, their marriages, and their lives.

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  • 1. nmmillan  |  October 13, 2008 at 3:02 am

    Just curious but isn’t preaching done by talking to people? What you described sounds more like protesting/causing a disturbance. And why are you so concerned with what complete strangers do on their own time? How do the decisions of these people effect you personally? Please understand, I’m not saying these things to be rude, I truly want to understand where you are coming from.

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  • 2. Stephanie Charpentier  |  October 13, 2008 at 3:29 am

    These strip clubs are horrible places. They’re degrading to women. Porn ruins people and ruins marriage. We were talking/preaching to the crowds going in and telling them to turn away from that wicked place and to repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ. We care about these people, and even though it might not directly effect us, we care for more than just ourselves, and so that is why we have to tell them the truth.

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  • 3. nmmillan  |  October 13, 2008 at 3:52 am

    the truth according to who?

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  • 4. Stephanie Charpentier  |  October 13, 2008 at 4:09 am

    God. We trust His word, the Bible.

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  • 5. pyropakman  |  January 29, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    You make it an article of faith to believe that the Bible is a God’s word.

    It doesn’t make it true, simply that you believe it.

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    • 6. Stephanie Charpentier  |  February 3, 2009 at 3:43 pm

      Faith is built on logic. It isn’t blind. I suggest reading the book Smart faith by J.P. Moreland, and also the Case for Faith by Lee Strobel.

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  • 7. pyropakman  |  February 9, 2009 at 5:41 am

    I have read much of the arguments made by those respective authors- they have proven intellectually vapid, dishonest, asinine, inane, and, of course, false.

    I suggest bringing forth some evidence before making such bold claims.

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