A Kansas church changed the lives of nearly 2,000 people on Sunday when they paid off some $2.2 million in medical debt.
In an Easter Sunday sermon, lead pastor Todd Carter of Pathway Church in Wichita, Kansas paralleled the excitement a person feels when they find out that their medical debt has been forgiven, to the excitement we should feel every day for the debts that Jesus paid for us on the cross.
According to Relevant Magazine, He told his church that this year, instead of spending money to advertise for their Easter church service, they gave the money to a company called RIP Medical Debt, which works to buy and forgive peoples medical debts for pennies on the dollar.
In a video of the church’s service posted to Facebook, Carter told his congregants, “We decided to take some of the money that we would normally give to people who are in financial need and we took some of the money that we would normally use to be able to promote our Easter services.”
He continued, “When I say ‘promote our Easter services,’ I’m talking about the money that we would normally use to pay for -s about our weekend services for Easter as well as the direct mail that we would send to people’s homes, but we decided to do something different this year. We wanted to send out a different kind of mail.”
Carter told the church that this year, they decided to send…
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