"Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bells, I want to run a rescue shop within the yard of hell."
C.T. Studd
In The News
November 2007
Gwinnett Daily Post
"A new move: Nonprofit helps women escape from adult entertainment industry"
It seems, with a story like this, laughing would be the last thing to come to her mind. But Victoria Teague is surprisingly candid about the whole ordeal. For her, laughter is precisely what is needed. "Sure, it was hard to talk about, but it's been a while ago now. It's a sad testimony, but I've decided we need more laughter," Teague said about the origins of her foundation, Victoria's Friends, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization for women. Read more...
April 6, 2005
Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"Stripper Ministry: Ex-dancer's message of hope connects clubs and churches"
Like a SWAT team of spirited Easter bunnies, a half-dozen evangelists descended on a Buford Highway strip club called Rooster's Barnyard Etc., their hearts nervous, their hands full of gift baskets. Inside the club, the Saturday night crowd was in full swing. Rock music rattled the walls, men hooted and knocked back shots of brandy, while naked women shook their moneymakers on a lighted stage. The gift-bearers, all female, bypassed this scene, walking directly to the dressing room, where a handful of dancers in abbreviated costumes sat or stood, chatting and fixing their hair. Read more...
April 6, 2005
Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"Stripper ministry founder knows the joys of overcoming"
Victoria Teague had a horse when she was 13. A sports car when she was 16. And a cocaine habit by age 19. The drug use began after two catastrophes. In February of 1978 her younger sister, Terri, died of cancer at age 12. A month later, just before her 16th birthday, Victoria says she was raped by a high school boy who was never charged. Confused, suicidal and headstrong, Victoria turned to drugs. Eventually, to raise money, she also turned to stripping. Read more...
August 2005
The Citizen
Article - Citizen Magazine August 2005
The first book of the Bible that Victoria Teague ever read was Job. She discovered it while sitting—homeless and stranded—in the parking lot of the Waffle House in Marietta, Ga. A few days earlier, she'd been fired from her job as a strip-club dancer because her looks had so deteriorated from an 11-year cocaine addiction that she was no longer considered "profitable." "I was barely 100 pounds, I had constant nosebleeds. When you start losing your looks, they ask you to leave," she told Citizen. "I thought it was all over for me at age 28." Read more…