Source: Sunny Skyz
A church in Alexandria, Virginia, raised more than $100,000 to help dozens of college students pay off their outstanding debt.
The Alfred Street Baptist Church held a month-long fast to raise the money which paid off the debt for 34 students before their May graduation.
Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley, the pastor of the church, asked his 8,000-member congregation to fast not only with their diets but also with social media and their finances.
“We said we would pray as a church to what the Lord was telling us to do [with the money] and that we would donate it 100 percent outside of the church,” Wesley told Good Morning America.
Once the decision was made to help college students, the church made a video where they told the students who were chosen that their debt was forgiven.
The entire congregation…
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