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Open Door Baptist Church (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) Fantasies strip club in Anchorage, Alaska underwent a major transformation last year, replacing its dance poles with pews.
The new owner, Linda Dunegan, tried to buy the building several years ago however she was unable to reach an agreement with the tenant. Fast-forward a few years and the former hot spot of degradation has now become an oasis of new life – Open Door Baptist Church. This church came about because I prayed for five years, Dunegan said. God has been very good to me.
Dunegan s interest in the club stemmed from her past and knowing that her mother chose to make ends meet by dancing.
The head pastor of Open-Door Baptist Church in Anchorage, Alaska, Rev. Kenny Menendez, preaches a sermon on Sunday, July 25, 2021, about lessons derived from Psalm 142. | Screenshot: YouTube/Open Door Baptist Church of Anchorage
Turning a show floor into a sanctuary, a private lap dance room into a youth ministry space and trading a dancer’s pole for a pulpit are just a few of many changes that took place as a former strip club in Anchorage, Alaska, has been converted into a Baptist church.
Once home to the heavily-frequented Fantasies on 5th strip club, the building was bought by Linda Dunegan, the daughter of a former exotic dancer, and was transformed into the new home of Open Door Baptist Church, according to The Associated Press. The church, which opened last October, is headed by Rev. Kenny Menendez.
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