Subject: Online Offering 🩺 Eliminate Medical Debt for Our Neighbors

 

Sunday Worship Services In-Person & on Zoom @ 10:30AM
Spartan Community Center of Hazelwood

SPECIAL OFFERING

ABOLISHING MEDICAL DEBT ON ALL SAINTS SUNDAY

Many of our neighbors are strapped with medical debt, one of the leading causes of bankruptcy along with damage to credit scores and reluctance to seek necessary medical care. By joining with the Matthew 25 Initiative of the Pittsburgh Presbytery, we have the opportunity to abolish over $11 million of medical debt in Allegheny County for pennies on the dollar.


On All Saints, this Sunday, we will take a special offering for Undue Medical Debt during our regular worship gathering. Yet a large part of our extended community don't attend on Sunday mornings and that's ok! Online offerings are another way we are one community even when not physically gathered.

DONATE HERE

WHAT IS THE MATTHEW 25 INITIATIVE?

Hot Metal is a Matthew 25 congregation, which means we have agreed to be a part of a movement in the Presbyterian Church USA to build congregational vitality, dismantle structural racism, and eradicate systemic poverty. Rooted in Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 25:31-46, this movement calls on mid councils, congregations, and groups to live out the church’s mission through bold and compassionate discipleship.


WHAT IS UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT?

Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose purpose is to strengthen communities by erasing financially burdensome medical debt. Powered by donors, they buy and erase the medical debts of everyday people, freeing them from bills they can’t afford.


Undue Medical Debt will focus on abolishing the debt of families living within 4 times the poverty rate in our area, or who have medical debt that exceeds 5% of their income. People do not apply for debt relief, it just happens. They don’t know until they get a letter from Undue telling them the good news. In the letters sent to those benefiting from our campaign, it will say something like, “Your debt has been abolished by your neighbors in the Pittsburgh Presbytery”.

HAPPENING AT HOT METAL

🍲 VOLUNTEER AT HAZELWOOD FOOD PANTRY

First Saturdays, Next is November 1
9:30-11:30 AM @ Spartan Community Center of Hazelwood
(134 E Elizabeth St)

For years, Fishes & Loaves Cooperative Ministries has been providing free groceries to Hazelwood neighbors in the very space we worship in, and Hot Metallers are invited to lend a helping hand once a month. No RSVP is needed, just arrive ready to assist neighbors with love and dignity.



🙏 WEEKLY PRAYER CHECK-IN

Tuesdays @ 1 PM On Zoom >>

Bob leads a weekly online opportunity to connect with each other and support one another.



📖 BOOK STUDY: CHERISHED BELONGING

Thursdays: 6:30-8 PM

Carnegie Library Hazelwood (5006 Second Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15207)

Zoom Link >>

Pastor Sally Jo is leading a study of "Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times" by Father Gregory Boyle (and maybe sneaking in a little bit of "Acts" too.) Copies of the book are available from your local library or can purchased. The book study will be hybrid in-person and on zoom.



💔 PRAYER VIGIL AT ICE OFFICE

Fridays: 8-10 AM (Hot Metal Hosting 11/14, 12/12)

ICE Pittsburgh (3000 Sidney St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203)

When there is suffering or injustice, disciples of Jesus respond. Following the lead of our friends at Casa San Jose, we join them and other communities of faith in a committed prayer witness in front of the ICE Building on the Southside every Friday. You are invited to bring respectful signs welcoming immigrants and asylum seekers.



🧸 THE NURSERY IS BACK

EVERY SUNDAY: 10:30 AM
Spartan Community Center of Hazelwood (134 E Elizabeth St)

Childcare during worship services is once again available for kiddos ages 4 and under! Please bring your own diapers, snacks, and comfort items (blanket/toys).

FIRST TIME AT OUR NEW HOME?

Social anxiety when you don't know what to expect is so real. Let's make this one step a little easier. Below are images to help familiarize yourself with getting in the door. The Spartan Center has ample parking, an accessible entrance, and a genderful restroom available. And GoogleMaps now recognizes our new address when you search for Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community.

 

Sunday Worship Service
@ 10:30am
In-Person & on Zoom

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Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community
Weekly Worship Gathering Sundays at 10:30am
134 E Elizabeth St | Pittsburgh, PA 15207 | 412-481-4010
hotmetal@hotmetalbridge.com | hotmetalbridge.com

 
134 E Elizabeth St., Pittsburgh, PA 15207, United States

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