Zone1 "My Baby Needs Formula"....Cold Calling Churches

[SweetSue92]

"If it's in your power to do good, and to do it not, it is sin unto you"

I don't recall that Bible verse. Do you have a reference?

 

[SweetSue92]

A little more on Mandy from Kzoo

What happened​

This isn’t the first time someone has threatened to call the police on Mandy for sleeping in a church parking lot, she said.

Finding a safe place to sleep is a struggle when living in your car, Mandy said. Plus there’s an added challenge of making it appear like you aren’t sleeping in your car.

“You don’t want to get harassed,” Mandy said.

On the night Mandy filmed the video last September, she awoke to a knock on the door and note taped to her window. Someone was threatening to call the police and have her car towed.

So she walked into the building to speak with someone.

“I walk in and I’m crying and I’m just like, ‘Why would you do that?’” Mandy said. “I’m just trying to survive and they just didn’t care.”

A church representative said they could have handled the situation better and have increased their outreach to organizations helping Kalamazoo’s homeless population.

Mandy said she doesn’t want the church to receive harassment. No one from the church has reached out to her to apologize, she said.

This one was worse than the cold-calling. I can see why churches don't want people camping in their parking lots for all kinds of reasons, but that woman 'pastor' who took the phone out and just recorded her wasn't sympathetic at all.

 

[Slyhunter]

Long before food stamps that's exactly what people would do. Even in Greece today people are given foodstuffs, things like flour, rice, noodles and other staples) from the church as the government has no programs like those you sponge from.

Guess what, no one has starved.

Yes they did.

 

[Slyhunter]

This one was worse than the cold-calling. I can see why churches don't want people camping in their parking lots for all kinds of reasons, but that woman 'pastor' who took the phone out and just recorded her wasn't sympathetic at all.

Churches are like any other business, they need to make a profit or they can't pay their bills. Even non-profits need to make more than they spend to cover wages and bills. Can't do that when demand out-weighs supply.

 

[Zebra]

It was all a con. I don't even think she's in need--she just wanted to play "gotcha" with the churches.

so i think as well

 

[Calgon]

A woman is going viral on social media for calling churches, synagogues and mosques and asking for formula for her baby. She doesn't have a baby, she just plays crying in the background. She is recording which churches offer assistance and which do not.

Unbelievers are mostly thrilled to learn that most churches do not offer immediate help. And at first blush, this does seem cruel.

I'm a member of a mid-sized church in the country. Even WE have many calls of people asking assistance, and, even worse, we have people coming to the doors Sunday morning for same (yes, we have strong security). We have no way, in the moment, to vet whether the request is legitimate or whether, say, the money or goods will be sold to buy drugs.

That's why many churches referred the caller to their own food pantries, which operate at specific hours, or nearby assistance the church affiliates with. The caller on social media marked this down as a "would not help".

One more consideration: churches are almost entirely member-funded. I want to help the needy with our donations, but I would certainly like my money to go to real needs, and not who-knows-what.

Thoughts?

I would be interested to know where she posts this and her reach. Guessing people are seeing right through her?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

A woman is going viral on social media for calling churches, synagogues and mosques and asking for formula for her baby. She doesn't have a baby, she just plays crying in the background. She is recording which churches offer assistance and which do not.

Unbelievers are mostly thrilled to learn that most churches do not offer immediate help. And at first blush, this does seem cruel.

I'm a member of a mid-sized church in the country. Even WE have many calls of people asking assistance, and, even worse, we have people coming to the doors Sunday morning for same (yes, we have strong security). We have no way, in the moment, to vet whether the request is legitimate or whether, say, the money or goods will be sold to buy drugs.

That's why many churches referred the caller to their own food pantries, which operate at specific hours, or nearby assistance the church affiliates with. The caller on social media marked this down as a "would not help".

One more consideration: churches are almost entirely member-funded. I want to help the needy with our donations, but I would certainly like my money to go to real needs, and not who-knows-what.

Thoughts?

Just another perpetually outraged liberal searching for something to be outraged about, whether true or not is irrelevant, and then proceed to virtue signal over their faux outrage

 

[SweetSue92]

I would be interested to know where she posts this and her reach. Guessing people are seeing right through her?

Social media: TikTok, Instagram. Of course unbelievers are falling for head over feet...

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Honor your father and your mother so that your days will be long in the land the Lord gives you