The Trinity Project
It takes a lot of guts for everyone involved - "Trinity" is Michelle, who up until recently starred in porn videos as "Trinity James." The project is a ministry of the two crusading pastors behind XXXChurch.com, a site that ministers to people whose lives have been damaged by pornography (both inside and outside the industry), and works to raise awareness of the issue in the Christian community.
(Heck, let's be honest - they work to lift the "untouchable" stigma from Michelle, her coworkers, and the people who download her videos. People caught in any form of sexual sin are the modern-day lepers, and XXXChurch is all about turning the church around to minister to them in just the same way Jesus reached out to the rejects of his own society with some really good news. But enough about that, already... what about the Trinity Project?)
The "Trinity Project" is at once painfully simple and breathtakingly difficult - Michelle is leaving her life as a porn star behind, and making a new start for herself hundreds of miles away from the California studios, with her husband and young son. Criag and Mike, the pastors from XXXChurch, have used their site to raise over $12,000 to help the former "Trinity" make the move, find a place to live, and plant the seeds of a new life in Indiana. They've promised to continue supporting her personally - they've personally befriended her family - and through their site, with finances, prayers, and whatever other help the family needs to make their new lives work.
In exchange, Michelle is taking maybe even a bigger chance. She's agreed to put her all into leaving the dirt behind her, yes. But she's also committed to sharing her story - piece by piece, as it happens - at the blog linked above. Going public this way is mighty brave, and it's already making waves, in both Christian circles and porn circles. There are thousands and thousands of people rooting for Michelle to succeed in her new life... and there are probably a few who will be watching for her to stumble, too.
It's got the feel, in some ways, of a "reality" TV show - except this one isn't a contest, or a stage show, or a scripted, edited fraud. And the opening of Michelle's life is more about ministry and accountability than about exhibitionism. It's got the potential to really open people's eyes, and to humanize the actors and actresses whose body parts fill our screens, in a way that few other endeavors could. At the same time, I'm more than a little nervous that perhaps private, personal accountability is the best arrangement for such a difficult transition, and that the heat of the spotlight is better avoided - at least until the bumps and pits of a life-changing event are a little ways in the past.
Regardless, I'm in awe of the way Mike and Craig continue to stick their necks out to minister among the lepers.
And I'm even more in awe of Michelle and her family, at the guts it's taking to do something like this, to make this transition so suddenly, so completely, and so publicly. I don't know whether or not it's well-advised yet... but I'm confident that it's being done with an awful lot of prayer by everyone involved, and in the end, I suspect we'll see God powerfully at work.
Blessings and prayers to Michelle and her family - count me among the many, many folks who are pulling for you!
If you'd like to financially support the "Trinity Project," you can do so here. Prayers, of course, are free.
(Heck, let's be honest - they work to lift the "untouchable" stigma from Michelle, her coworkers, and the people who download her videos. People caught in any form of sexual sin are the modern-day lepers, and XXXChurch is all about turning the church around to minister to them in just the same way Jesus reached out to the rejects of his own society with some really good news. But enough about that, already... what about the Trinity Project?)
The "Trinity Project" is at once painfully simple and breathtakingly difficult - Michelle is leaving her life as a porn star behind, and making a new start for herself hundreds of miles away from the California studios, with her husband and young son. Criag and Mike, the pastors from XXXChurch, have used their site to raise over $12,000 to help the former "Trinity" make the move, find a place to live, and plant the seeds of a new life in Indiana. They've promised to continue supporting her personally - they've personally befriended her family - and through their site, with finances, prayers, and whatever other help the family needs to make their new lives work.
In exchange, Michelle is taking maybe even a bigger chance. She's agreed to put her all into leaving the dirt behind her, yes. But she's also committed to sharing her story - piece by piece, as it happens - at the blog linked above. Going public this way is mighty brave, and it's already making waves, in both Christian circles and porn circles. There are thousands and thousands of people rooting for Michelle to succeed in her new life... and there are probably a few who will be watching for her to stumble, too.
It's got the feel, in some ways, of a "reality" TV show - except this one isn't a contest, or a stage show, or a scripted, edited fraud. And the opening of Michelle's life is more about ministry and accountability than about exhibitionism. It's got the potential to really open people's eyes, and to humanize the actors and actresses whose body parts fill our screens, in a way that few other endeavors could. At the same time, I'm more than a little nervous that perhaps private, personal accountability is the best arrangement for such a difficult transition, and that the heat of the spotlight is better avoided - at least until the bumps and pits of a life-changing event are a little ways in the past.
Regardless, I'm in awe of the way Mike and Craig continue to stick their necks out to minister among the lepers.
And I'm even more in awe of Michelle and her family, at the guts it's taking to do something like this, to make this transition so suddenly, so completely, and so publicly. I don't know whether or not it's well-advised yet... but I'm confident that it's being done with an awful lot of prayer by everyone involved, and in the end, I suspect we'll see God powerfully at work.
Blessings and prayers to Michelle and her family - count me among the many, many folks who are pulling for you!
If you'd like to financially support the "Trinity Project," you can do so here. Prayers, of course, are free.
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