Anne from Itown Church
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S22 E5: Self-Made Woman
But there was a really large amount of kids who in the organizational system, all their names were next to each other. And it was like 12 or something, but it was a pretty big amount of kids all next to each other on the signup sheet that didn't get turned back in. And we looked and we were like, Megan Stoner signed up to buy gifts for like all these kids.
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S22 E5: Self-Made Woman
And most families signed up for like one or two children. And then we realized she came into the office and dropped off a bag from Old Navy with like six clearance t-shirts. And was like, hey, I signed up for a bunch of kids, but like this is all I could afford. So here you go.
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S22 E5: Self-Made Woman
We were just like, this is so weird because what's the point of signing up to get Christmas presents for children and then not following through? By that point, she had kind of had a reputation on the staff for just being a little off. So we were like, Okay, another weird Megan Stoner thing. We'll just go out and buy these kids Christmas presents with the church credit card.
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S22 E5: Self-Made Woman
Hi, this is Anne, and I worked at Itown Church during the years that Megan Stoner was involved. I worked at Itown for, I think, six or seven years. So I think she started attending in around the pandemic time, or at least that's when we all kind of caught wind of who she was. She tried to get pretty involved.
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S22 E5: Self-Made Woman
She joined a lot of small groups before the podcast and before she got all mad about things. One thing that put her on my radar, I was working in the missions department, and it was a little before Christmas.
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S22 E5: Self-Made Woman
We partner with DCS and do this thing where, you know, people in the church can buy Christmas presents for kids, and then the parents come pick up the gifts, so they have gifts to give their kids on Christmas. You know, it's a massive church, so we had like 700 families that we were buying gifts for.
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S22 E5: Self-Made Woman
So I was orchestrating all the details of that, and like people from the church signing up to give gifts to the children. And we... assumed that there'd be some people that would sign up for a child and then forget that they did or not bring in their presents in time. We knew we'd have to go out and buy a couple of presents last minute that didn't get turned in.