Infamous Atlanta Strip Club Now a Church
Transforming the building from a “temple of debauchery(Gold Club Shut Down in Atlanta)”:http://www.nationalcoalition.org/goldclub.phtml into a tabernacle for God is the mission of one Atlanta Church.
bq.. _What was once a house of sin will soon become a house of worship._
_A nondenominational church will lease the Gold Club building and hold its first services there early next year. The infamous Atlanta strip club was shut down by the federal government after a sensational racketeering trial in 2001._
_Church members will start cleaning out the building this weekend._
_”We’re going to take something that was a mess and turn it into something good and usable,” said the Rev. Dan Garrett of the Christian Church of Buckhead._
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[...] Thanks David. I know, ya just can’t make this kind of stuff up! Okay, this should probably get “some” tongues waggin’…Actually, I have been to the Gold Club once. I took my ex-husband there for Valentines day a million years ago. We went with another couple, friends of ours. It was actually a very swank place, but soooo expensive. There were other couples there as well. I believe they called it a “GENTLEMAN’S CLUB”. Sort of like a Vegas show~girl kind of thing. At one time it was a popular “celebrity/big time stars” hang out. We didn’t stay very long (Mainly because we couldn’t afford it! We had just popped in after dinner intown to surprise the heck out of our men, at that time. And boy, were they surprised! Sort of a gag/joke kinda thing. We laughed our butts off!) and we didn’t see any hooker stuff going on.I was kinda surprised when all the mob stuff came up. Here’s the kicker, the place is now a CHURCH!http://www.inthefaith.com/2003/12/19/infamous-atlanta-strip-club-now-a-church/ [...]