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Michigan church eliminates $2.9M in medical debt for Southeast Michigan residents
ANN ARBOR, MI - It's Christmas in July for thousands of Southeast Michigan residents. Or, perhaps more accurately, Easter.
The Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor used this year's Easter donations to wipe out $2.9 million in medical debt for 2,120 people in Washtenaw, Jackson, Hillsdale, Ingham, Livingston, Monroe, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Notification letters went out this week, and church leaders want to get the word out that it isn't a scam, said Pastor Donnell Wyche.
Each year, the church donates its collections from Easter Sunday to various causes, Wyche said. They've previously made donations to Food Gatherers and Habitat for Humanity, and helped create housing for the formerly incarcerated through the group Religious Action for Affordable Housing.
But this year, Wyche proposed a new cause.
He was inspired by a story in The New York Times about two women eliminating medical debt for more than a thousand New Yorkers, as well as a segment on "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver about the nonprofit charity RIP Medical Debt. The organization buys debt portfolios, but, rather than acting as a debt collector, forgives the debt.
The idea of medical debt relief was a great fit for Easter, because it marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Wyche said...
Ann Arbor church eliminates $2.9M in medical debt for Southeast Michigan residents - mlive.com
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One of our churches (the big one in GR) did the same thing recently. What are churches doing sitting on fat bank accounts? Just what is their problem??
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