[Zahn:] And we're moving up on just about 15 minutes before the hour. Time to check in with Larry King to figure out what he's doing this evening. It's about 15 minutes from now, so Larry, who is joining you.
[Larry King, Cnn:] Well, Paula, an old friend of yours as well, former President George Herbert Walker Bush will be with us discussing his trip to Pakistan over earthquake relief. Lots of other things too. And Reverend Robert Schuler who yesterday left his famed Crystal Cathedral Church and turned it over to his son, Reverend Robert A. Schuller so the Schullers, father and son, will follow President Bush all at top of the hour, Paula?
[Zahn:] That is going to be a pretty emotional thing for father to hand over responsibilities like that to his son.
[King:] Sure will.
[Zahn:] We'll be watching to see what he has to say about that, thanks Larry.
[King:] Thank you, dear. I thought you were wearing black like me today
[Zahn:] We had that matching thing going on Friday and I decided to break the pattern tonight. Have a good show.
[King:] I'm depressed.
[Zahn:] Don't be depressed. I'll wear black tomorrow.
[King:] OK.
[Zahn:] That made no sense at all. We'll move on now to story that I think you'll probably be surprised by. Sheer a woman that has been a stripper, a porn star and now she happens to be on a mission and certainly not one that any of us would ever expect. Heather Veitch is about to guide you through the seedy world where she used to make a living. Before a personal loss changed her life. She still prowls the strip joints but with a very different goal in mind. Here's Kareen Wynter.
[Wynter:] It is after dark on one of the grittiest street corners in Southern California. Heather Veitch goes work.
[Heather Veitch, Jc's Girls:] Doing something that is risky dangerous that you don't know what is going to happen to you.
[Wynter:] Although she knows this world very well, it is impossible for Heather to feel at home here. The former stripper and adult film star says the business almost killed her. Her poison the magnetic draw of the glitzy Las Vegas strip. Easy money and celebrity clients. But the wild night life and ties to trouble 21- year-old from Los Angeles into a world of sex, alcohol and sometimes violence. Heather says she feared for her life, addicted to alcohol and subjected to abuse by her customers. But it was the death of a close friend that drove her out of the business.
[Veitch:] About three years ago a dear friend of mine passed away that I used to dance with. And I found out that she died of alcoholism.
[Wynter:] Heather eventually gave up the bottle and quit the sex industry. But didn't abandon it. Her new journey took her right back to the strip joints. But with a new focus. A spiritual one. She turned to Christianity for redemption.
[Veitch:] So God, I just pray that you be in charge of this night.
[Wynter:] Heather formed a missionary group, Jesus Christ's Girls.
[Veitch:] It really started hitting anyway nobody cares about them. Nobody. I started really thinking like is anybody reaching out to these girls?
[Wynter:] Several former strippers joined her crusade, a unique but risky outreach program that involves late night trips into some very rough neighborhoods..we went out on a mission with JC's Girls but they wouldn't let our cameras follow them into strip clubs because they want their meetings to be confidential and safe.
[Veitch:] We don't want to endanger ourselves and we don't want to create too much attention to what we're doing.
[Wynter:] Inside, Heather and her crew split up. [on camera]: They even go as far as paying for private lap dances. And that's where the group's ministry begins, by preaching to these dancers.
[Tanya Huerter, Jc's Girls:] It is simply planting a seed, getting the message out there because a lot of the girls don't hear that they can know about God. And so just by planting the seed that they can know about God if they want to doesn't matter who you are or what your life is about.
[Wynter:] JC's Girls have taken their message right into the lion's den ark tending international porn conventions where they hand out bibles wrapped in signature t-shirts.
[Veitch:] You can come and start going to church and having a relationship with God.
[Unidentified Female:] No way.
[Veitch:] Yeah. That's what we do.
[Wynter:] It is an unlikely place to promote religion but she believes this is where she'll find people that need it.
[Veitch:] We try to make it so that if you ever want to go to church...
[Wynter:] Not everyone here agrees.
[Chrissy, Adult Entertainer:] They come to a porn convention and them to think they have to save us is kind of kind ofgets you out of the mood. It is like why are you even here?
[Wynter:] Carol Leigh, a former prostitute, who now heads her own nonreligious outreach program in San Francisco doesn't approve.
[Carol Leigh, Sex Worker Advocate:] To couch it in a specific religious framework, I think that's problematic. And to make to point finger at these women and tell them there is something wrong with them, I don't think that's necessarily the best things for their lives.
[Wynter:] Some people associated with the sex industry think Heather's ministry is harmless.
[John Weston, Entertainment Attorney:] The notion they're going weed them out or somehow lead them out of bondage, to me it is just silly.
[Veitch:] Thursday, January 19th at 12:30.
[Wynter:] Heather Veitch, who now styles hair for a living, has no illusions that she will bring down a multibillion dollar sex industry. But she thinks she can make a difference. Part of it is a successful Christian Web site she runs out of her bedroom. There are desperate emails from girls looking for help.
[Veitch:] I have been dancing for a year now but I'm about to be 21 and I don't want to be a drunk.
[Wynter:] Heather now has kids and a husband but says her spiritual family is still growing.
[Veitch:] I have hope for my life. I have a lot of hope for my own life because I know that my life consists of good. Of watching people change their lives, of seeing people have hope that didn't have hope before.
[Wynter:] One of those people is stripper Roxann Elias who is now in a place she never imagined would embrace her, a church.
[Roxann Elias, Exotic Dancer:] Made me happy. I don't feel worthless. I feel like even though I'm a dancer, God loves me and it is OK. I'm OK with my life. I can do something else.
[Wynter:] Heather Veitch says her new calling will keep her on the streets. Trying to lead others away from the life she has escaped. Kareen Wynter, CNN, Los Angeles.
[Zahn:] And coming up next could this be the next big thing in dating?
[Unidentified Male:] Look at one of your target's eyes.
[Zahn:] Is three minutes of staring into someone's eyes all you really need to know about a date? Does he love me or does very something stuck in that eye? Find out when we come back.