A North Carolina congregation discovered that one issue bridges its usual political disagreements.
An effort to clear medical debt ended up helping 1,631 neighbors, as Trinity Moravian Church raised more than $17,000 and used it to eliminate over $2.2 million in medical bills.
What happened?
At Trinity Moravian Church near Winston-Salem, the Rev. John Jackman said debates over issues such as immigration and student loans can divide the congregation. Medical debt, however, has had the opposite effect.
According to NPR, the church’s latest medical-debt drive was its eighth and falls under an initiative it calls the Debt Jubilee Project…