{"id":211589,"date":"2026-06-05T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211589\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:24:10","slug":"love-your-neighbor-churches-holding-medical-debt-relief-fundraiser-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211589\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Neighbor Churches holding medical debt relief fundraiser \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published June 05. 2026 09:37AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Love Your Neighbor Churches Fundraiser for Medical Debt Relief is going on now through Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">For every $10 donated relieves $1,000 of medical debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A group of local churches are gathering around this effort again challenging Lehigh Valley residents to join together to erase the medical debt in Lehigh and Northampton counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Donations can be made to one of the participating churches: The Barn, Allentown; Good Shepherd UCC, Slatington; Grace Lutheran, Macungie; Grace UCC Northampton; Heidelberg Union, Slatington; Jordan UCC, Allentown; New Creation UCC, Easton; St. John\u2019s Lutheran\/Second Chance Shoppe, Slatington; St. John\u2019s UCC, Fullerton; St. John\u2019s UCC, Laurys Station, Union Lutheran, Schnecksville and Union UCC, Neffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Make note on your donation \u201cMedical Debt Relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Donations can also be made directly at https:\/\/unduemedicaldebt.org\/campaign\/love-your-neighbor-churches-friends\/.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A community-wide picnic and celebration will be held 3-7 p.m. Aug. 16 at Union UCC Grove, 5550 Route 873, Neffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">There will be food, music, playground and a gift card raffle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">To learn more about the undue Medical Debt Relief fundraiser, go to unduemedicaldebt.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published June 05. 2026 09:37AM Love Your Neighbor Churches Fundraiser for Medical Debt Relief is going on now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-211589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}