Debt Jubilee Project

Our Christmas campaign sought to raise $20,000 -- but ended up raising $43,169! We partnered with Raleigh Moravian Church, The Table Moravian Church, Fries Memorial Moravian Church, and the Men’s Fellowship of Ardmore United Methodist Church. Many individual donors from all over the state helped push us over the 200% mark. We were aided by a surprise front-page column by Scott Sexton, Aiming High At A Pile of Debt on Dec 31.

Our campaign ended up purchasing $6,560,412 in medical debt, aiding 2,973 families in Wake County. Those households have received a letter certifying that their medical debt is abolished.

Joel Osteen might have a plane and a mansion but you are the real MEGA church. Thank you!! -- Carol M, Iowa

I'm glad to see that there are good people, regardless of what the media portrays, social media distorts what is real, that there are good people everywhere. -- Dave S., Maine

We saw what you did for your community by buying up medical debt. You are amazing. -- Peter, Delaware

Thank you for doing something truly Christlike in a world packed with Pharisees. -- Caroline , Maine

I'm not a church goer, but I just read about your Debt Jubilee and I wanted to say that it helped bolster my faith. This is how a church should be. God bless y'all. -- Jimmy P., South Carolina

I want you to know that you've brought back a lot of my faith in churches and I hope you can continue to change lives. -- Aaron H.

It has affected me deeply to realize there are people out there who live with this kind of compassion. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all you have done for your locals. - Bridget A.

Your act of kindness really really fortified my feelings towards humans in general. There’s still a lot of good people out there, and good people willing to do good things. -- Matt Grace

So it is with a full heart and tears in my eyes that I write to thank you for purchasing the medical debt of those in your community. With that one act, you have preached the gospel so loudly that I heard you all the way in California. Praise be to God. -- Laura O, California

I’m not a church going man... but I wanted too know you brought me a lot of joy reading that story. I don’t know you but I’m proud of you. -- Dave M., Maryland

Trinity Moravian Church is partnering with RIP Medical Debt to purchase and forgive medical debt in our area.

Our first project last summer was able purchase — and forgive — $1,165,796.61 in medical debts in Forsyth and Davidson counties, assisting a total of 1,356 real Triad families. Our second campaign completed on January 31st, and was able to purchase $3,295,863.64 in medical debts. We were able to help 3,133 families in Davidson county, 155 families in Davie county, and 67 families in Yadkin county. Our next campaign will focus on Yadkin, Surry, Stokes, and Rockingham counties (details DBA).

How can we do this? Medical debt is often sold off to a secondary market for pennies on the dollar. RIP Medical Debt has created a visionary system where they intervene and buy that hard-to-collect debt for a penny on the dollar.

1 in 4 Americans owes medical debt that cannot be immediately paid. More than half the personal bankruptcies in the US are due to medical debt. The US is the only industrialized nation where an illness can reduce a family to poverty. Until recently, medical debt was included in credit reports, crippling families’ ability to rent an apartment or buy a car. Families working paycheck-to-paycheck who were “making it” before are driven into poverty by an illness or an accident, and the subsequent medical debt.