{"id":58631,"date":"2020-01-22T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58631"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:38:32","slug":"local-churches-donate-nearly-13-million-to-pay-off-medical-debts-of-families-in-this-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/01\/22\/local-churches-donate-nearly-13-million-to-pay-off-medical-debts-of-families-in-this-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Local churches donate nearly $13 million to pay off medical debts of families in this community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Church of Christ congregations and the Deaconess Foundation in St. Louis collaborated with New York-based nonprofit RIP Medical Debt in order to pay off medical debts of around 11,000 families in the community amounting to almost $13 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please note that we only addressed those who are living at or below poverty \u2014 people who should not have to worry about the cost of health care anyway,&#8221; Rev. Traci Blackmon told a gathering at Christ the King United Church of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope this will be a shot of hope into our region, a shot of hope into our neighborhoods; we hope it will challenge and spur other denominations and other churches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen UCC congregations raised about $60,000 and the Deaconess Foundation matched $40,000 for the campaign.\u00a0The donations bought out debt for families in 78 zip codes in the St. Louis region.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3629\/St-Louis-Churches-Erase-Nearly-13-Million-In-Medical-Debt-For-Families-In-The-Community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3629\/St-Louis-Churches-Erase-Nearly-13-Million-In-Medical-Debt-For-Families-In-The-Community<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Church of Christ congregations and the Deaconess Foundation in St. Louis collaborated with New York-based nonprofit RIP Medical Debt in order to pay off medical debts of around 11,000 families in the community amounting to almost $13 million. &#8220;Please note that we only addressed those who are living at or below poverty \u2014 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58631","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\/58631","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=58631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}