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Mid-Kentucky Presbytery churches help Kentuckians eliminate more than $4.5 million in medical debt

Presbyterian church members became passionate about the plight of medical debtors who can’t afford their medical bills after learning about a debt relief effort offered by the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt organization. Through a donor campaign launched in their churches over the summer, together they raised enough money to abolish $4,577,749.43 of medical debt for thousands of Kentucky residents.

Mid-Kentucky Presbytery churches help Kentuckians eliminate more than $4.5 million in medical debt

Presbyterian church members became passionate about the plight of medical debtors who can’t afford their medical bills after learning about a debt relief effort offered by the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt organization. Through a donor campaign launched in their churches over the summer, together they raised enough money to abolish $4,577,749.43 of medical debt for thousands of Kentucky residents.  

Rest in peace, medical debt

One in 10 American adults owes significant medical debt, and that debt causes two-thirds of all bankruptcies. To the Rev. Stacy Cavanaugh of Union Presbyterian Church in Monroe, Wisconsin, that wasn’t acceptable.

This PC(USA) church in Stillwater runs deep

Youth and young people are not the future of the church. They are the church, as viewers of the August edition of “Being Matthew 25” learned Thursday.

Creative approaches to addressing hunger and homelessness applauded

During a virtual meeting on Thursday, the Presbyterian Hunger Program Advisory Committee heard about a variety of approaches that are being used by faith communities to address poverty and homelessness, from taking a group bike ride to paying off medical debt.

A new take on the Parable of the Talents

Grace United Church of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, a merged congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Church of Christ, recently completed a fundraising project to nearly triple a gift of $2,000, to be used with the Matthew 25 invitation’s foci in mind: alleviating hunger and poverty, confronting racism, advocating for criminal justice reform and addressing other social justice needs.