Welcome to episode 050 of Mud Stories!
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Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone.
In today’s episode I’m talking with Annie Lobert, survivor of more than a decade of sex trafficking, and the author of her very first book, Fallen: Out of the Sex Industry and Into the Arms of the Savior. Annie worked as an exotic dancer and a high-class escort, and is now an internationally recognized expert, and advocate of ministry, to men and women in the commercial sex industry.
Annie is a survivor of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), domestic violence, childhood abuse, sexual abuse, abortions, miscarriages, pornography, anorexia and bulimia, cancer, drug addiction, and drug overdose. And it has become her mission to go back and reach the ladies she left behind who were working in Las Vegas as prostitutes and/or sex trafficking victims.
So in 2005, Annie founded a non-profit organization called Hookers for Jesus, whose focus continues to be to Hook (outreach), give Hope (Jesus), Help (housing), and Heal (restoration) those who have been in the sex industry. Annie founded The Destiny House–a safe place for women to live while healing from the serious trauma of being sex trafficked–in an endless effort to rescue women and give them hope for their futures.
In this episode Annie shares :
- Her story of childhood abuse
- Exploitation as a high-class escort with a pimp
- And the details of working in the sex industry for over 15 years
Annie helps us understand:
- What sex trafficking is
- The insidious dangers of pornography
- How to overcome our own hurt, pain, and failure
- And the hope of how God’s love can heal us and redeem anything we’ve faced
Annie is passionate and persistent, and her heart for those who need God’s love is wide. Annie longs for others to know how much God loves them and for them to be set free and healed. May you find her story eye-opening and encouraging, and may you know today, there is nothing you can do to go beyond the reach of God’s Great love. Nothing.
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SCRIPTURE:
And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men…”
Matthew 4:19 (ESV)
CONNECT with Annie:
Website:
- Annie’s website: www.hookersforjesus.net
SOCIAL MEDIA:
LINKS:
- Annie’s Book: Fallen: Out of the Sex Industry & Into the Arms of the Savior
, by Annie Lobert
- MSNBC TV Documentaries: June 2015 series of TV documentaries about Sex Slaves and freeing women from Sex Trafficking (Annie’s ministry is featured in the episodes Sex Slaves: Las Vegas and Sex Slaves: Escorts)
- Sex Trafficking Power and Control Wheel
- Shelly Lubben, ex-porn star who tells the raw truth about the making of pornography
- Annie’s Media Videos
- Annie’s Ministry: Hookers For Jesus and The Destiny House
- Make a Donation to The Destiny House: Click HERE
{To view this video of Annie’s story and her encouragement, Click HERE}
{To view this video of Annie’s testimony-I Am Second, CLICK HERE}
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