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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Church raises $30,000, cancels $4 million in medical debts, the power of perseverance.

Northview Church in Indiana asks itself regularly. What would happen if the church packed up and left

the state? Would anyone notice? Would anybody care? It turns out, people who owed $4 million in medical debt would.

The church, which operates seven campuses and averages about 10,000 people on a typical Sunday,

conducts what it calls the dollar club four times a year. Each person in attendance is asked to

contribute a dollar, which the church pools and uses

to meet needs. The church typically raises between $6,000 and $10,000. The money goes to support

foster families, help with medical bills and so on. In May, however, the church told members

they had a special opportunity and asked them to donate $3 or $4. A few weeks later, the church told members they had a special opportunity and asked them to donate three or four dollars.

A few weeks later, the church partnered with a charity called RIP Medical Debt,

one of the organizations that buys such debt from hospitals, doctors, and even investors,

usually for a penny per dollar.

The church donated $30,000 to this charity. Since some medical

debt in Indiana was cheaper than normal, the charity then leveraged Northview's donation

to alleviate $4 million in debt. The weekend news was dominated by President Trump's meeting

with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, where he became the first

sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea. The stock market is expected to gain more

than 250 points this morning after the U.S. and China agreed not to impose more tariffs.

And pride parades across the nation and the NBA Free Agent announcements also made headlines.

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