Woman Takes Church Financial Class; Within One Year She is Free of $500,000 Credit Card Debt
She gives God the glory, calling the quick turnaround a supernatural miracle as a result of following God's precepts for money management.
(Maryland)—Not that long ago Katrina Clements, who was earning $30,000 a year as a nurse, was $500,000 in credit card debt. Admittedly, she had developed a habit of buying whatever she wanted which negatively affected almost every part of her life.
Now, via a report on NBC, Clements is debt free and she's giving God the glory for it, crediting her church—First Baptist Church of Glenarden—and its pastor, John K. Jenkins, for facilitating it. (Photo by Marianne Todd/Getty Images)
Said Jenkins, "I have accumulated this bottle of cut up credit cards from people who have been delivered from the credit card [debt]. God wants us to have money and not for money to have us."
It was through the church's financial freedom class that Clements says she began taking the appropriate steps to slay her debt dragon. She reportedly cut up her credit cards, called her creditors, got her interest rates reduced (or in some cases eliminated completely), and drastically changed her spending habits. Within a year of taking the class, Clements says she was out of debt. Tithing 10% of her earnings, she claims, was a big part of the process.
According to the report, Jenkins and Clements call what happened with Clements' debt supernatural, and credit the quick turnaround to her following a Godly order of money management.
