New Beginnings Ministries Protest Local Strip Club

It’s a battle that is crossing county lines, and causing a stir outside a South Zanesville strip club.

"My family and I pass by the Fox Hole all the time and we decided it was time to take a stand," says Zanesville resident and protestor, Elizabeth Johnston.

And today, an advertised ‘Bare Babe Car Wash’ gave her that opportunity. Fueled by Paster Bill Dunfee and New Beginnings Ministries’ work out of Coshocton, Elizabeth wants local residents to join her in saying enough is enough.

"These women were just standing outside in the nude washing cars. Our community should not allow this to take place. The neighbors right here beside the Fox Hole just said your women are in the nude beside my house," says Johnston.

Pastor Bill Dunfee and members of his congregation began spreading their message outside a small New Castle strip club also called the Fox Hole. He readily joined Elizabeth in her fight.

"Our ministry stood alone doing this for four years, and we know what it is to stand alone and not to have have physical support. I firmly believe our community is behind us, our churches are praying for us and theyr’e soaking and saturating us in prayer and it’s coming across the nation that way," says Pastor Bill Dunfee of New Beginnings Ministries.

While protestors aim to spread their message and the Gospel, Fox Hole manager Robin Ferrell says she doesn’t disagree with what they’re saying, just the way they’re saying it.

"I just think if you’re going to get a message across, especially a message about God, it should be about love and how he can change your life. If He may have better things, He does have better things for you, and maybe this isn’t the best things to them (protestors.) To a lot of people, it’s not the most moral thing. I understand that but the way they’re giving us their message is completely wrong," says Ferrell.  

But an end to all of this, is nowhere in site. Pastor Dunfee feels lead to plant seeds to ultimately change lives.

"We’ve been doing it for four years. We’re not going to stop as long as there’s one of these (strip clubs) in our community."

Deputy Sheriff, Tim Matheney of the Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office says they arrived on the scene to assure that protestors were not on private property, and that Fox Hole employees were not engaging in offensive or obstructive behavior.