{"id":44366,"date":"2014-06-01T01:39:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T01:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tennessean_nashville_stripper_ministry_is_answer_to_pastors_wifes_prayer\/"},"modified":"2014-06-01T01:39:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T01:39:33","slug":"tennessean_nashville_stripper_ministry_is_answer_to_pastors_wifes_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44366","title":{"rendered":"(Tennessean) Nashville stripper ministry is answer to pastor&#39;s wife&#39;s prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Stevens isn&#8217;t that kind of evangelist who stands outside the strip club with her bullhorn, yelling at the customers to repent or face the flames.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s inside the lobby with the strippers, feeding them a catered dinner twice a month, giving them Mary Kay Cosmetics gift sets and quietly slipping her cellphone number into their hands.<\/p>\n<p>She brings no Bibles. No tracts. No lectures.<\/p>\n<p>Just love and an unusual mission given to her by God two years ago, she says, after she spent 21 days fasting and praying for a building for nondenominational Friendship Community Church in Mt. Juliet. Friendship, launched by her husband, Todd Stevens, in 2006, has more than 1,000 members but still meets in Lakeview Elementary School&#8217;s rented auditorium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/religion\/2014\/05\/30\/nashville-stripper-ministry-answer-pastors-wifes-prayer\/9761101\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Stevens isn&#8217;t that kind of evangelist who stands outside the strip club with her bullhorn, yelling at the customers to repent or face the flames. She&#8217;s inside the lobby with the strippers, feeding them a catered dinner twice a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44366\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,184,436,177,164,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-soteriology","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}