Come and wash away your sins from the night before. A West Virginia preacher wants to turn a strip club into a house of worship. They'll get rid of the garter belts for a different type of collection basket.
Pastor Art Hage is trying to raise the $795,000 to buy the Pink Pony and transform it. "It has such a bad reputation and we feel like we could make it good," Hage told the Charleston Gazette. The former strip club that was caught up in controversy after Powerball millionaire Jack Whittaker was drugged and robbed there in 2003. The crime led to the loss of the club's liquor license.
The Pink Pony has been up for sale for more than a year.
The preacher at the Bible Church & Ministries in Hurricane, tells the Charleston Daily Mail, he wants to turn the Pink Pony into a church and a rehabilitation center to help those with drug, alcohol and gambling problems.
The pastor said he hopes to attract those who used to frequent the club.
"People will come, people are hurting," he said. "That's why they go to places like that. They're hurting, they want help, they want someone to help them. They're looking for answers," he tells the Mail.
Would you go to a church that used to be a strip club?
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Pastor Art Hage is trying to raise the $795,000 to buy the Pink Pony and transform it. "It has such a bad reputation and we feel like we could make it good," Hage told the Charleston Gazette. The former strip club that was caught up in controversy after Powerball millionaire Jack Whittaker was drugged and robbed there in 2003. The crime led to the loss of the club's liquor license.
The Pink Pony has been up for sale for more than a year.
The preacher at the Bible Church & Ministries in Hurricane, tells the Charleston Daily Mail, he wants to turn the Pink Pony into a church and a rehabilitation center to help those with drug, alcohol and gambling problems.
The pastor said he hopes to attract those who used to frequent the club.
"People will come, people are hurting," he said. "That's why they go to places like that. They're hurting, they want help, they want someone to help them. They're looking for answers," he tells the Mail.
Would you go to a church that used to be a strip club?
Viewers serve up their thoughts:
Gio writes on Facebook: well it IS prove of Jesus word..he can turn anything around for the best...
@Sattiewhite tweets: @maggiesworld location doesn't matter. What does matter is what's in your heart!
Get in on the dish. Send me your tweets: twitter.com/maggiesworld or emails: maggie@39online.com or comment on the Online Dish Facebook fan page.
And that's today's helping of Online Dish.
