{"id":58700,"date":"2020-03-04T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58700"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:47:10","slug":"a-church-in-ohio-wipes-out-more-than-46-5-million-in-medical-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/03\/04\/a-church-in-ohio-wipes-out-more-than-46-5-million-in-medical-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"A church in Ohio wipes out more than $46.5 million in medical debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, more than 45,000 families will not have to worry about their medical debt. This is because the church worked with non-profit RIP Medical Debt that leveraged every dollar raised by the church members for the noble cause to abolish $100 in medical debt.<\/p>\n<p>The church wiped out debts for people in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee\u00a0and Indiana. They will receive bright yellow envelopes this week letting them know\u00a0the good news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Churches are at our best when we are a blessing to real people in our communities,&#8221; Senior Pastor Brian Tome told Fox News Thursday. &#8220;We&#8217;re not here to just have big Sunday meetings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The church wiped out debt for 41,233 households in Ohio for a total of $42.8 million, 2,974 Kentucky households abolishing $1.9 million in debt, 503 Tennessee households for $1.5 million, and 136 Indiana homes for $200,000,\u00a0FOX 19 reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/cincinnati-church-wipes-out-46-5-million-in-medical-debt-largest-amount-for-nonprofit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/cincinnati-church-wipes-out-46-5-million-in-medical-debt-largest-amount-for-nonprofit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, more than 45,000 families will not have to worry about their medical debt. This is because the church worked with non-profit RIP Medical Debt that leveraged every dollar raised by the church members for the noble cause to abolish $100 in medical debt. The church wiped out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58700","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\/58700","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=58700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}