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A church in Kalamazoo, Michigan has come under fire after an interaction between two women at the church and a homeless woman went viral. In the viral video shared via TikTok, the homeless woman explained that she parks her car in the parking lot to sleep. “I’m not bothering anybody by being here,” she said in the video. “I don’t cause any trouble. All I do is park my car here and sleep.”
As she spoke, one of the women at the church appeared to be recording her. “Put it on Facebook,” the homeless woman said to the woman filming her. “It’s not gonna make you look the way you think it is.” At that point, a woman at the desk in the church’s office told the homeless woman that she had to leave or she would call the police.
“Tell me where in the Bible it says, ‘Let’s be s—– to homeless people.'”
The homeless woman, who goes by Mandy (per MLive), told the women at the church that she would share the interaction online and that they would later be embarrassed.
According to MLive, the interaction occurred in September 2024 but Mandy shared the video in November 2025. Now that the video has gone viral, the church, which Mandy identified as Second Reformed Church in the video’s caption, has received tons of complaints in the form of “hundreds if not thousands” of calls and an onslaught of one-star Google reviews.
Because of all the backlash, the church stopped answering calls.
In the video, Mandy criticized the church because of how the two women treated her.
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After showing the interaction with the two women at the church, Mandy reflected on the incident, saying, “How many times in that video did they show me a little bit of compassion? How many times did they say, ‘What can we do to help?’ How many times did they say, ‘Here, have a Kleenex and sit down, and we can talk about it?'”
Not only did the two women not appear to offer Mandy any comfort or support, but they also didn’t even treat her like “a human being,” she said.
“How many times did they treat me or look at me like I was a human being?” she continued. “That was inside the church. You can hear the music in the background.”
People in the comments called it “evil.”
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They were horrified by the way the two women at the church treated the homeless woman. “The hate in this woman’s eyes tell me everything I need to know,” one person wrote.
“She not only showed no compassion, she looked at you with contempt. Extremely disgusting.” A second person commented, “There’s no hate like Christian love.”
Reacting to the church’s name, someone else added, “Seems like Second Reformed Church needs to be ‘reformed’ a third time…”
Other content creators also made videos criticizing the church and sharing some of the information they found after the original video went viral. TikTok “detectives” allege that the woman who recorded the homeless woman at the church is actually a pastor there.
In response to all the backlash, the church has updated its website with a statement. “A video involving a past interaction at our church has been circulating online and has raised concerns within our community,” the statement reads in part.
“At Second Reformed Church, part of our mission is to be rooted in Christ’s teachings on compassion, support, and service to all, including those experiencing homelessness. We take this matter seriously and continue to review our policies to ensure they align with our values to creating a safe, welcoming environment to everyone.”
They said they “could have handled [the situation] better.”
Speaking to MLive, Hector Quemada, who works on the church’s mission team, said, “It is a situation that we we could have handled better, and that we are definitely being intentional about how we meet the needs of the homeless.”
Hector told the news outlet that in spite of what people might believe after seeing the viral video, the church is “very compassionate.”
