Dear Colleagues in ministry:

We are writing to invite you to participate in an effort we are calling the Jubilee Campaign. One of the greatest pictures of the kingdom of God that we find in the Old Testament is what’s called the Year of Jubilee. Here in South Alabama, when we hear about Jubilee, we think of fish washing up on the shore. But that wasn’t what the biblical writers had in mind.

In Leviticus, we learn that one of the most important things that happened in the Year of Jubilee is that people were forgiven for debts and obligations that they could not repay. This was an expression of mutual responsibility and care for the vulnerable. In other words, people could not be indefinitely enslaved or encumbered. The message is: in God’s kingdom, nobody is left out. In God’s kingdom, nobody is overlooked. In God’s kingdom, nobody gets passed over. In God’s kingdom, everybody matters!

Churches in the Presbytery of South Alabama (PSA) are invited to participate in the Jubilee Campaign to end medical debt in our area. As you know, medical debt is something that plagues families all across the United States through no fault of their own. PSA is partnering with RIP Medical Debt to purchase bundled medical debt portfolios and then forgive that debt at pennies on the dollar. On average, $1 is leveraged to abolish $100 in medical debt!

The page is active now and will remain active through January. The address for our dedicated page is: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/campaign/south-alabama/?

Every donation through this page will be spent directly on abolishing medical debt in Alabama (with an emphasis on the counties where there is a PSA church located). When debt relief recipients open the yellow envelope from RIP, they are told that their debt has been bought by PSA churches and erased with no strings attached. They owe nothing on the debt and face no tax penalty. Let’s join together to help abolish debt and bring Jubilee to thousands of families across Alabama!