ALGIERS POINT, La. (WVUE) – A small church in Algiers Point exceeded its goal to forgive $1.5 million in medical debt for people in southeast Louisiana this Easter weekend.
Mount Olivet Church and its 30 parishioners spent three months working toward a $15,000 fundraising goal. The church hosted corner bar concerts, circled collection plates and repeated a weekly call to keep giving.
The goal was exceeded by millions with help from the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt. The organization buys debt at a discount and then pays it off, making the money Mount Olivet raised worth about $1.7 million in debt forgiveness…