How would your Church respond?
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Anonymous
You don’t understand middle America clearly. Sure in moco or n.va. There are resources but in bum f nowhere churches are those resources. They don’t even have hospitals, ffs. Get out of your privileged bubble, |
Anonymous
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If you called my church and asked for formula or diapers, you would get them. If they had none on hand, they would reach out to parishioners to ask them to fulfill the request. The immediate need would be met. And you would also be provided with connections to local resources to help you in the future.
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Anonymous
I don't think you understand what I am saying. I am saying that if I was a young mom with a baby that I was worried about feeding, I would first try my own church if I had one, and other options. I'd go to the food pantry to see if they had formula. I'd try to get WIC. If I had older kids, I'd ask the social worker at my older kids' school if I had one. I'd put word out that I would do odd jobs like babysitting for cash, and see if any of my friends had formula to spare. I'd probably do all those things before I'd call a church I'm not connected to. Which means that I might be 100% out when I called churches. I'm explaining why I think a mom calling when she doesn't have any left is believable. Yes, calling earlier is also believable. But me recognizing how someone might get in the position of calling at the last minute isn't a sign I'm privileged. |
Anonymous
The hoaxster did not wait to listen to resource referrals. She had an agenda, clearly, since she had. No. Baby. And with her personality, she never will. I’ll bet a case of formula your friends dad hadn’t seen the inside of that church in well over a decade. Why would your friend call the, and nit a funeral parlor? |
Anonymous
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My church runs a pantry and collects gift card donations. Formula is just way more expensive. I know my priest would try to help.
WIC was still funded even during the shutdown. May that continue I pray. |
Anonymous
I know for a fact, that capital YOU, do not understand that in small towns there is no food pantry, lol you think schools in the middle of nowhere have social workers, WIC and SNAP benefits were just cut by a psychopath, in a small town, your friends might be just as poor as you, your local church might be 35 miles away, you probably don’t own a car, you’re not gonna do odd jobs with a two month old baby, this person could actually have had a job that was illegally cut by DOGE, or they’ve been furlough, you think somebody in middle America, where there is one gas station has a ton of odd jobs…, Smfh |
Anonymous
Yes, she did want to hear about it. What she is doing is she is exposing fraud. It wasn’t a hoax. It was a social experiment and she showed each person at the end exactly what she was doing. When you’re Catholic, you have a mass for a funeral. It’s part of the religion. |
Anonymous
| Np. I volunteer in small Appalachian towns every summer. They definitely have food pantries, WIC, and SNAP (honestly, how could you think they wouldn’t have the latter??). Tons of social services for kids and elderly and home bound. In some ways, that’s part of the problem, but I digress. |
Anonymous
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She did not want to hear about the referral and affiliated resources because she interrupts the receptionists every time they start talking about it.
Look, I know you mean well, but you’re hitching your horse to the wrong cart if you’re trying to advance an agenda on the back of a lying wannabe influencer. |
Anonymous
I am so confused by your response. Someone said that anyone with an actual baby would call in enough time that "Our food pantry is open on Sunday" would be an acceptable solution, and that someone calling as they run out would be suspect. I said that people who call at the last minute would not be suspect, because for all they know they started trying earlier, and just failed at their early attempts. I gave examples of other things they might have tried, including calling other churches. Other people pointed out that she might have the formula with the botulism that got recalled, or that she might have accidentally spilled her formula or had it stolen. So, none of us are judging a hypothetical mother who calls at the last minute, or saying that a mother in an urgent last minute situation is the problem. I also said that there would be situations where someone might call a church first, perhaps while they still had formula to tide them over a few days. So, I didn't judge people who live in rural communities where they would call a church first either. Twice now, you've yelled at me saying that the solutions I offer might not work, when I literally gave them as examples of things she might have tried and failed. You seem to be disagreeing with my argument that she shouldn't be judged (well, the Tik Tokker might be judgeable, but the imaginary woman she was pretending to be). Are you saying that my NOT judging a woman is a sign that I'm "privileged"? That judging her would be a sign of privilege? |
Anonymous
| Isn’t the fact that this woman herself was lying and running a scam of sorts proof that churches are correct in not just immediately handing over money or resources? |
Anonymous
Fraud? Do these churches advertise free formula on demand, on the first telephone call? |
Anonymous
You Volunteer in one town and now you know every small town in Kentucky, which is where she was has a food pantry? You know SNAP benefits were cut that week by the federal psychopath. Do you know how many weeks it takes to get your WIC benefits after you apply? Anyone, anyone, anyone … buehler ? Do you know how much money you get with WIC? $26 /mtg for an infant |
Anonymous
Boo hoo churches were exposed for the fraud that they are. No way to spin this one. |
Anonymous
| I think there’s something biblical about being angry when someone highlights hypocrisy rather than being mad at the hypocrisy. |