JC's Girls is an Evangelical Christian women's organization in the United States whose members preach the gospel to female workers in the sex industry. The group does not focus upon conversion but rather on communicating its message that Christians exist who are not judging female sex workers and are willing to accept them. Now based at The Rock Church in San Diego, the organization was founded in 2005 at Sandals Church in Riverside, California by Heather Veitch (pictured), a stripper for four years before becoming a Christian and leaving the sex industry in 1999. Terry Barone, spokesman of the California Southern Baptist Convention, said that JC's Girls members "are doing what Jesus did ... He ministered to prostitutes and tax collectors." Criticism of the organization has focused on the way that members dress and the fact that they do not explicitly encourage women in the sex industry to quit. Philip Sherwell of the Calgary Herald called the evangelism of JC's Girls "America's most unusual Christian outreach operation".

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

47 BC:

Caesarion, possibly the son of Julius Caesar, became the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, ruling jointly with his mother Cleopatra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarion

1807:

The British Royal Navy began their bombardment of Copenhagen to capture the Dano-Norwegian navy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807)

1885:

White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, US, attacked Chinese immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately US$150,000 in property damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre

1945:

On the deck of the United States Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and several Allied Powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender

1990:

Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but it remains only a partially recognised state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

concentre: 1. (intransitive, rare) To come together at a common centre. 2. (transitive, rare) To bring together at a common centre. 3. (transitive, rare) To condense, to concentrate. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concentre

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

More is given to us than to any people at any time before; and, therefore, more is required of us. We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit. Falling these, civilization must pass into destruction. It cannot be maintained on the ethics of savagery.   --Henry George https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_George