{"id":58276,"date":"2019-07-11T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58276"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:58:11","slug":"wyoming-church-pays-off-medical-debt-of-1899-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/07\/11\/wyoming-church-pays-off-medical-debt-of-1899-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming church pays off medical debt of 1,899 families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A church in Wyoming, Michigan, recently partnered with RIP Medical Debt to pay off the medical debts of 1,899 families worth almost $1.8 million. RIP Medical Debt is a nonprofit that purchases medical debt for pennies on the dollar, leaving the debtor with no bills or tax burdens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took a $15,000 donation to help eliminate $1.8 million worth of medical debt that will never be able to be paid by these folks,&#8221; said Sam Rijfkogel, the lead pastor of the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The families will be notified about the gift sometime next week through a letter from RIP Medical Debt. The recipient&#8217;s identities are unknown, even to the church, because of medical privacy laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3383\/Local-Church-Pays-Off-Medical-Debt-For-Nearly-2-000-Families (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3383\/Local-Church-Pays-Off-Medical-Debt-For-Nearly-2-000-Families\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3383\/Local-Church-Pays-Off-Medical-Debt-For-Nearly-2-000-Families<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church in Wyoming, Michigan, recently partnered with RIP Medical Debt to pay off the medical debts of 1,899 families worth almost $1.8 million. RIP Medical Debt is a nonprofit that purchases medical debt for pennies on the dollar, leaving the debtor with no bills or tax burdens. It took a $15,000 donation to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}