Our Mission Statement
Living 4 Giving (L4G) is a group of Christians from Trinity Lutheran Church of Dover, New Jersey. L4G encourages the church membership to be aware of societal needs by providing various opportunities to serve within our church, local, and worldwide communities. This can be in the form of service, tangible items and/or monetary gifts.
Lent
Each Lenten season we choose a project to dedicate our time and talent to. In 2025 we are collecting books for the library at Academy Street School in Dover. The basement where the library is located was damaged and has been fixed. Most of the books were damaged as well. If you have not done so, you can choose a book from our book tree and purchase it. Many of the books are in Spanish.
86 Books were donated.
Mother's Day / Father's Day
This year we are combining our Mother's Day and Father's Day Project. We have decided to collect items for the Senior Building on East Blackwell Street.
Summer Project
Undue Medical Debt
Undue Medical Debt, formerly known as RIP Medical Debt, a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization, was founded in Long Island City, New York in 2014 by former debt collection executives Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico.
The charity purchased portfolios of income-qualifying medical debt from debt collectors and healthcare providers, and then relieved the debt. This charity continues today with its new name and continues to convert every contributed dollar into an average of $100 of purchased medical debt relief. The founders were inspired by Occupy Wall Street's medical debt elimination efforts.
As of May 2025, the charity claims to have relieved debts totaling over $15 billion for over 9,850,000 people. In the coming weeks, we hope you will journey with us and become more informed about this seemingly “too good to be true” project.
Trinity, you have continued to offer great help in this crisis. Thank you for standing firm in assisting those who desperately want relief from their medical burdens. Thank you for being heroes. Until September 28, we will continue to give you an opportunity to eliminate medical debt, through making a donation to Undue Medical Debt by:
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Making out a check to Trinity with "Undue Medical Debt" on the memo line.
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Placing a donation in the jar in the narthex.
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Donating directly to https://unduemedicaldebt.org/donate/
We encourage everyone to ask a L4G team member your questions about Undue Medical Debt, or place your question in the donation jar. Serving as God’s hands is not an easy task, but a necessary one.
