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Heather Veitch is a bubbly, buxom blonde who looks like the sort of woman who could have a career as a stripper if she wanted one. And once upon a time, that's just what Heather did for a living, but after several years of working in adult entertainment, she'd developed a serious drug addiction and a profound spiritual emptiness. Heather embraced Christianity, began attending the Sandals Church in Riverside, California, and struck up a friendship with the church's pastor, surfer turned preacher Matt Brown. Heather was happy in her new life, so much so that she wanted to share the good news about Jesus Christ with women not unlike herself. With Matt's help, Heather formed a group called "JC's Girls," an outreach organization for women working in adult entertainment that offers them a positive message about Christianity without heaping negative judgments against them. While Matt understood the value in Heather's new mission, not all of her fellow parishioners felt the same way, and she found herself receiving hate mail, angry phone calls and even death threats for urging strippers to attend services at Sandals. Filmmaker Bill Day spent two years following Heather Veitch's unusual story, and The Pussycat Preacher is a documentary about one woman's efforts to teach pole dancers about the Rock of Ages. The Pussycat Preacher won the Audience Award for Favorite Documentary Feature at the 2008 Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California.