We would love to have you all serve with us in Vegas or at a porn show. We build teams to take love into places where most wouldn't expect to find it. Our hope is that you will have an experience with us that will transform your ministry back at home. We believe God's love is attractive, relational and available to all.

Trips cost money but we will provide you so many ways to help you raise all the money you need to go on a trip. Your money raised goes directly towards the outreach that we will do that week. We are a small ministry that is able to have high impact. Each trip will have between 8-12 people serving on it.

The application and registration process for XXXchurch or Strip Church trips are handled on the Fireproof Ministires Serve site. Select from the options below and fill out the application. It is that easy --- See you soon!

The Nightline piece was great. It is posted below.

Friday November 14th, we plan on having a gathering in Las Vegas where we share the vision of XXXchurch Las Vegas with friends, family and supporters. If you would like to come out email vegas@xxxchurch.com and let us know. The event is at 8pm at the Venetian Hotel and we will be serving dessert. Martin Bashir who used to be best know for the Michael Jackson interview but is now going to be best known to us  for his stories on XXXchurch will be coming out to do a story on all things XXXchurch and Vegas. Come out to the party and maybe you can wear as much make up as Donny and I wore the last time we were on Nightline.

In case you were on the fence about this night. Here is what we have lined up so far:

Dessert - lots of it.

David Dean

Donny Pauling

The XXXchurch Board of Directors

The whole XXXchurch crew including Michelle of X3 and her dog.

ABC NIGHTLINE Crew

 The vision for Vegas

Elvis

Something Blue.....

That is all I can tell you right now.

Rsvp to vegas@xxxchurch.com soon.

-Craig

What: An evening where we share the vision of XXXchurch Las Vegas with the fine folks that care and are interested in supporting this. Night will include a short presentation and dessert. Staff and X3 Board members will be present. Space is limited so RSVP as soon as possible.

Who: For anyone that is interested. If you are married bring your spouse, If you are single come alone or bring a friend. The event is free but you have to get yourself to Las Vegas and find a place to stay. If your boss is a millionaire bring him or her.

When: Friday, November 14th, 2008, 8pm.

Where: The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. (Ballroom name will be given to those who RSVP)

The Venetian Hotel is on the Las Vegas strip. A short taxi ride from the airport. If you are looking for hotels to stay at, the closest to the venue would be:

The Venetian

The Palazzo

Treasure Island

The Wynn

Feel free to book a room anywhere you like, those are just the closest. We plan on having some time on Saturday to set up individual meetings with different people to answer more questions and give some more insight.

If you stick around Saturday night and make a weekend out of this, we are all thinking about
hitting up the new Cirque du Soleil - Believe show.

So, you want to come? Send an email to vegas@xxxchurch.com with your first and last name and your mailing address and we will put your down. On the email, let us know how many people are attending.

See you in November,

Craig

As the ministry ideas are still forming, we wanted to share a little bit more with all of you about our plans:

-We plan to have a significant outreach to those working among the sex industry in Vegas. We will have an apartment or house of females; multiple houses possibly some day. We are looking for women who want to be used by God and use the gifts and talents that He has given them to reach out to those in the sex industry in Las Vegas. We don't want to put all of this out online but if you are between the ages of 18-30 and feel that working with people amongst the sex industry is for you please email us at vegas@xxxchurch.com with some information about yourself and we will let you know more of the game plan. We have three gals making the move with us as of now that are beginning this outreach

-We want to target the hundreds of thousands of tourists to Las Vegas every week. We want to especially target those on business that are here midweek. We will use two websites to promote this. http://www.stripchurch.com and http://www.xxxchurch.com/lasvegas.
 
The goal is to pick the biggest conventions that we want to target. We don’t target cosmetology because that is not our market. We target MEN which includes but is not limited to business men, builders, truckers, dads, leaders and husbands who don’t plan on messing up their lives but easily can when in town. We pick those events. We don’t have to be open 52 weeks a year. We propose doing three things for each convention:

1. We have a booth at their show. We would send a team of people to a convention to meet the people, give away a "Jesus loves You" Bible. We meet people and let them know who we are and make ourselves available to them. This has been a huge success for XXXchurch by going into the conventions and meeting people there.

2. We have a morning session "church service" no smoke machine, glitz or glam just a room on site with chairs, a projector, a guy on a guitar and a message. We offer prayer, encouragement and a stay the course type talk that includes “we are here for you…" We will have a phone number that will be available 24/7 that will go to a pastor on staff that will be willing to talk to people at anytime of need.

3. We have an evening session somewhere cooler. The night time/evening gathering is at a sports bar, lounge or somewhere recognizable. A hang out so to speak depending on the convention, the event could change locations and structure. During a porn show, we would bring in some former porn stars and testimonies from people to share.

The website will have a ton of resources on it and the address is marketed to people in hotels which include ads around town. We hope to get hotels to list us in their room directory, ads on TVs, all sorts of things could be developed to drive people to the website so people can get a hold of us and watch/download something or just be encouraged. We could do some great things around town just promoting a website.
 
We are currently looking to hire three full-time people for the Vegas project. One female who will oversee the female staff. A full-time person to help us raise the money and spend more time with supporters and one full-time lead pastor for XXXchurch Las Vegas/Strip Church.

There are currently five men who serve on the Fireproof Ministries Board of Directors. They are located in California, Ohio, Michigan and Las Vegas. If you would like to sit down with anyone from the board to discuss this new ministry in greater detail we would love the opportunity to do that. Send an email to vegas@xxxchurch.com or call us at 702-974-1690.

One last thing. We have a new mailing address, however the Grand Rapids one will still work for a short time if you did mail something there. We will have new envelopes and letterhead in the next month or so.

Fireproof Ministries
PO Box 400758
Las Vegas, NV 89140
702-974 -1690

Please pray for the X3 Vegas vision as we are obviously figuring out why God has led us to Nevada. We are holding on tight, as we know God is leading us on a crazy ride.