While Shepherds Watched
On December 23, 2018, Victoria Cameron witnessed a child being trafficked at Stonebriar Church — just before she was set to sing in the choir. Despite threats from those involved, she reported what she saw. That day, her grief and fear overwhelmed her while singing, yet instead of support, the church dismissed her from the choir. In While Shepherds Watched, DCN recounts the courage, trauma, and injustice she endured during that service.
DALLAS, TX —A child was trafficked from Stonebriar Church just two days before Christmas in 2018, and Stonebriar Church choir member, Victoria Cameron, saw it happen in the church lobby when she was walking through the lobby with her choir robe on right before she sang with the Stonebriar Church choir that day.
When she walked over to see what was happening, the couple that did this threatened her and told her not to tell anyone about what she saw. They told her if she did, she would be next, and threatened to traffic her. (See Article: Child was Trafficked from Stonebriar Church at Christmas
She reported what she saw anyway, said she was convicted by God that it was the right thing to do, regardless of how she was threatened.
She thought answering to God and having a pure and clean heart before him was more important than cowering to the fear of what might happen to her if she chose to walk away and say nothing.
That day, she tried to brush it off and act like nothing happened for her own safety, then tried to go on with what she was at church to do that day, which was to sing in the choir at the service.
She thought being with a large group of people like the choir would make her safe.
But as a child trafficking survivor, the emotion of what happened overwhelmed her and got the best of her.
Then, while she was in the choir loft singing, some of the people associated with the group who threatened her walked into the service and sat down near the front of the sanctuary.
They stared directly at her the entire time she was singing.
This intimidation tactic, combined with the evil she had encountered right before she walked onto the stage, caused her to have a trauma reaction while singing that was caught on camera.
Months later in March 2019, right after St. Patrick’s Day, the video of the service was brought to the attention of a group of church staff members who expressed disdain and even contempt towards her for the way she cried that day while on stage representing the church.
She was dismissed from the choir for it.
They told her that her tears ruined the video, and that they now had a $2000 bill to pay to a video editing company to edit as much of her out of the video as possible, to restore professionalism to the church’s image.
When she tried to talk to representatives of the choral leadership about why she was crying, they shut her down.
They didn’t care to listen to why she was crying that day, and weren’t interested in what she had to say about what had happened to her that day.
They told her that the people who she said were involved in trafficking would never do that.
They were offended that it was even suggested.
Then she was dismissed.
WHAT IF SHE HAD BEEN TRAFFICKED THAT DAY?
That’s what those tears were about.
Why didn’t they care to even listen to her when she tried to explain why she was so traumatized?
According to military veteran Frank Jenkins,
“I was at the service. I saw Victoria singing in the choir that day. I could tell from the look on her face that she thought her life was in danger. I have seen that look before from men who fought with me in battles. That’s the kind of look someone has on their face when they think they’re going to die.”
Another social media viewer stated that the look on her face in that video is
“a reaction that turned into evidence.”
Yet another social media commenter said,
“It looks like she saw someone sitting in the audience and she looked at them, and had a reaction to them like she didn’t expect to see them there, and it upset her.
Then she got really nervous, scanned the room, and looked over to her right and to her left, like she was looking at the exit doors, doing emergency safety planning for whatever might happen when she left the choir loft that day.”
That person hit the nail on the head.
Victoria shared with DCN that she was pouring her heart out to God when she was singing in the choir, which was something she saw as her personal time of worship and prayer to Him, and not to the cameras that were filming the service or to whoever was in the audience.
Her audience that day was one person, and that was God. That was who she was singing to. That was who she was praying to, and that was who she was crying to for help.
She thought she was in his house, and that she was in his church, and that what you do when you’re in one of his places of worship, is that you talk to him, and that talking straight to him is the only thing that matters.
Isn’t that the entire point of the Christian life? To have a relationship with God?
Isn’t that why we go to church?
Isn’t that why we listen to pastors preach, because we’re trying to learn more about God and to learn more about how to position our hearts to talk to him and hear his voice?
That’s what she was doing that day.
What was so wrong with THAT!
Victoria shared with DCN that part of the song of her heart that day was a prayer for strength, healing, deliverance and restoration, and that God would rescue the child and protect her from being re-trafficked.
Yet she was FIRED from the choir for the way she cried that day.
And no one even cared to try to understand why…
…or what happened that day…
This is how Stonebriar Church treated a HERO that saved the lives of children from child traffickers.
Stonebriar Church declined to speak with DCN when our reporters called their office to ask them about this incident.
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Stonebriar Church in Frisco, TX
Stonebriar Community Church is an Evangelical traditional style church located in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex at 4801 Legendary Dr, Frisco, TX 75034. The pastor of Stonebriar Church at the time of this incident was founding pastor Chuck Swindoll, who retired in October 2024. Chuck Swindoll is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded Insight for Living, and is chancellor emeritus at Dallas Theological Seminary. Jonathan Murphy is the current senior pastor of Stonebriar Church. The church website is: https://www.stonebriar.org
