St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga raised enough money to erase $2.32 million in medical debt throughout the Bay Area.

The Rev. Joel Martinez partnered with nonprofit organization Undue Medical Debt to organize the eight-week fundraiser. Undue Medical Debt was started by two former debt collectors to buy portfolios of medical debt and pay it off through money raised through local fundraisers. In 2016 the nonprofit, under its former name RIP Medical Debt, partnered with John Oliver of “Last Week Tonight” to erase $15 million worth of medical debt.

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“This really was about all of us coming together and (doing) some good out in our community to live out our lives of faith in a different way than we had before,” Martinez said.

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