Small church in Triad helps families by buying and forgiving $1.7 million in medical debt

Forgive the Rev. John Jackman and the congregation at Trinity Moravian Church a moment of pride.

The Rev. John Jackman, who leads Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., burns a list of names of people in surrounding Forsyth County whose debt was bought and retired by the church.

Children from a local Scouting group help the Rev. John Jackman celebrate at Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., as the church marked the end of its latest Debt Jubilee Project campaign to buy up and retire medical debt.

The Rev. John Jackman, who leads Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., says the church’s medical debt campaign has brought together people across the political spectrum. “This is the easiest money I’ve ever raised,” he says.

Scott Sexton has been a bemused observer of daily life — and occasional thorn in the side of elected officials — in Winston-Salem since 2005. ssexton@wsjournal.com

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Trinity Moravian’s June Edwards on the $5,000 campaign that forgave more than a million in debt.

The Rev. John Jackman, who leads Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., burns a list of names of people in surrounding Forsyth County whose debt was bought and retired by the church.

Children from a local Scouting group help the Rev. John Jackman celebrate at Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., as the church marked the end of its latest Debt Jubilee Project campaign to buy up and retire medical debt.

The Rev. John Jackman, who leads Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., says the church’s medical debt campaign has brought together people across the political spectrum. “This is the easiest money I’ve ever raised,” he says.

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