Stonebriar Church Was a Shattering Experience: How the Conduct of Certain Staff and Leaders Contradicted Biblical Values
In the public spaces of a large evangelical church, conversations about escort services, recruitment, and commissions were spoken openly and without shame. This article documents what was said, where it was said, and how those conversations shattered trust for a choir member who believed she was engaging with vetted, values-driven church leadership.
DALLAS, TX—In the spring of 2018, Stonebriar Community Church was a place of routine Sunday rhythms: multiple services, a crowded lobby, congregants lingering between sermons to talk while traffic cleared from the parking lot. For members of the choir, it was also a common time to socialize—standing in groups, greeting familiar faces, and joining conversations already in progress.
It was in this ordinary, public setting that Victoria Cameron says she repeatedly overheard conversations about an escort and “massage therapy” program being promoted within the church community—spoken openly, without lowered voices, secrecy, or visible discomfort.
Cameron, who was singing in the choir at the time, says these conversations occurred in plain view in the main lobby outside the sanctuary doors, typically between services or after the service concluded. The speakers were not anonymous attendees; they were individuals she recognized from church leadership, choir involvement, and women’s Bible study groups.
“There was no sense that people were hiding what they were saying,” Cameron recalled. “No one whispered. No one looked around to see who might be listening. It was spoken as if it were normal. There was no shame, whatsoever at all.”
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A statement that shattered trust
One conversation, Cameron says, remains sharply etched in her memory.
She recalls approaching a small group in the lobby after a fellow choir member motioned for her to come over. As she joined the group, she says she heard Alan Hightower, identified to her as a church leader, assistant choir director and college professor, speaking enthusiastically about an escort program.
According to Cameron, Hightower spoke openly about his enjoyment of escort services, describing them as a form of “pure lust,” and praising what he characterized as the absence of emotional responsibility toward the women involved. Cameron says the remarks were delivered casually, without embarrassment, and without objection from others present.
“I love that there’s an escort program here! It’s just pure lust!” said Hightower according to Cameron.
The impact was immediate and profound.
“It felt like someone took a glass and shattered it right in front of me,” Cameron said. “I was stunned. I could not believe that words like that were coming out of the mouth from someone in leadership, in a church, in broad daylight. Everything I thought I understood about the values of that place just broke.”
Cameron emphasized that it was not only the content of the statement that disturbed her, but the context—that it came from someone that was respected and trusted by the moral and spiritual leadership of the church.
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Adjacent conversations about money and recruitment
Cameron says that on the same day—and in the same lobby environment—she overheard related discussions involving “massage packages,” referrals, and commissions. She recalls hearing individuals discuss purchasing services from visitors associated with Ghislaine Maxwell, and Maxwell herself, as well as encouraging others to do the same. They discussed the various types of packages Maxwell was offering and what was included and how they thought the value of the packages compared with what they paid for them.
In several instances, Cameron says, the conversation turned directly toward her.
At the time, she was in a financially vulnerable situation, having lost her home and staying in a spare room offered by a member of the church leadership, a widowed grandmother, someone she thought was safe and harmless. She says multiple people encouraged her to consider a “massage therapist” job being offered through the same network—framed as a way to earn good money quickly.
Cameron repeatedly declined.
“When I said I wasn’t interested, there was disappointment,” she said. “It was presented as help, but it didn’t feel like concern for me. It felt like they had a vested interest in getting a financial commission if they got me to sign up, which is why they were so disappointed when I refused.”
She later came to understand these “massage therapy” roles as connected to escort services—an interpretation that aligned with other trafficking-related activity she would later report.
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A culture, not a secret
What struck Cameron most, she says, was how normalized these conversations appeared to be.
People spoke with excitement—not just about services themselves, but about referral payments for children described as being placed for adoptions that were suspected to be procurement for child trafficking and about commissions tied to escort recruitment. The discussions carried the tone of something new and beneficial to the church community, something people believed was improving their lives.
“There was a sense that this was good for everyone,” Cameron said. “People talked about money they’d made. They talked about opportunities. No one talked about risk, or harm. To me, all of these discussions screamed that these business dealings people were involving themselves in were most likely connected to trafficking, but it seemed to never even cross anyone’s minds. I thought maybe the community as a whole was uneducated about the activities of trafficking organizations and how they operate, and that they were all being taken advantage of because they were naïve.”
Over time, Cameron says she made a conscious decision to withdraw socially—avoiding the lobby, avoiding conversations, and limiting interactions with people she once trusted.
“I realized that continuing to stand there, listening, made me vulnerable,” she said. “So I just started cutting people off and avoiding situations where I could be pulled into conversations.”
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A question that remains
Cameron says these conversations occurred before she fully understood the extent of Maxwell’s presence and operations within the church environment. In hindsight, she sees them as part of a broader pattern that would later become clearer through other incidents.
The article does not assert intent or coordination. It documents what was said, where it was said, and how it was received.
And it leaves a question that remains unresolved:
What does it mean when explicit discussions of escort services, recruitment, and commissions can take place openly in the public spaces of a church—without objection, correction, or apparent concern for the safety of vulnerable members?
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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
