{"id":107707,"date":"2025-12-24T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107707\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:24:31","slug":"vintage-store-ministries-aid-fresnos-unhoused-community-cbs47-and-ksee24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107707\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage store, ministries aid Fresno\u2019s unhoused community | CBS47 and KSEE24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 The owner of a vintage boutique store partnered with local ministries to give people food and a blanket Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody\u2019s struggling, but we still do what God wants us to do,\u201d owner of Bebe O\u2019s Vintage Boutique Lupe Aguilar-Oftedal said.<\/p>\n<p>At the corner of Palm and Olive Avenues were groups of people trying to spread holiday joy \u2013 to those who need it the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever they need, we\u2019re here to help everybody. Like I said, everybody needs a good Christmas,\u201d Aguilar-Oftedal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe come out to feed the less fortunate and the hungry,\u201d the founder of Men and Women of Prayer Adam Beas said.<\/p>\n<p>Beas has been serving the unhoused for years. His ministry also gave away hats, socks, and jackets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were homeless at one time. We were dealing with our addictions. We were homeless. We had a situation where a lot of these men come from broken homes, broken dreams, and we just want to come back and give back to the community,\u201d Beas said.<\/p>\n<p>These services help folks like Antwan Dailey. He said it\u2019s been a difficult five years without a home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people that come out to help, man, they\u2019ve been doing a good job. A wonderful job,\u201d Dailey said. He added that the giveaways are a big help, especially with the recent cold and upcoming rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t remember experiencing these winds like this when I was young growing up,\u201d Dailey said.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of Bebe O\u2019s Vintage Boutique store helped organize the charitable event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing it from my store, helping the community with food, with clothing, with toys for Christmas for 18 years,\u201d Aguilar-Oftedal said.<\/p>\n<p>Their work is essential with the cold weather and rain ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I\u2019m so tired of driving by and finding somebody dead on the street. Our city council really needs to work with us in order to get these people off the street,\u201d Aguilar-Oftedal said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 The owner of a vintage boutique store partnered with local ministries to give people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-107707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}