Matthew Moore: More than $17 million in medical debt has been erased for 11,000-plus residents of Sebastian and Crawford counties. That debt relief was made possible through a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt and the efforts of First Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith.
Reverend Tasha Blackburn is the senior pastor for First Pres. We spoke over Zoom last week. She says she first saw the idea years ago in a news article where a church in North Carolina did a similar thing.
Tasha Blackburn: And it was intriguing to me because of the numbers they were talking about. So, I mean, the numbers were astronomical, how much debt they could forgive for how little they gave, if that makes sense. So I kind of…