{"id":180477,"date":"2026-02-16T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180477\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:37:11","slug":"hobby-lobby-president-to-keynote-fresno-clovis-prayer-breakfast-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180477\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Lobby president to keynote Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 More than 2,500 people are expected to gather early Tuesday morning at the Fresno Convention Center for the annual Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast, where Hobby Lobby President Steve Green is scheduled to deliver the keynote message.<\/p>\n<p>The breakfast is set for 7 a.m. on Tuesday in the Fresno Convention Center\u2019s Exhibit Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Green became president of Hobby Lobby in 2004 and helped grow the family business to more than 1,000 stores in 48 states. <\/p>\n<p>The company employs more than 45,000 people and reported more than $7.5 billion in annual sales in 2023. <\/p>\n<p><p>Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp talks about the annual Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast. (Courtesy: Ignite Press \/ Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/dallas-jenkins-creator-of-the-chosen-speaks-at-a-prayer-fresno-clovis-prayer-breakfast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Jenkins, creator of The Chosen, spoke at the 2025 Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Green speaks on business and philanthropy, with a focus on how his faith intersects with his life endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Green also serves as chairman of the Museum of the Bible&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>He assembled a team of academics, designers, technology professionals, and other experts to create the 430,000-square-foot museum dedicated to a scholarly and engaging presentation of the Bible\u2019s impact, history, and narrative. <\/p>\n<p>The museum opened in November 2017 in Washington, D.C., near the U.S. Capitol, and saw approximately one million visitors during its first year.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers describe the Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast as one of the highest attended events of the year, drawing faith-based, civic, and community leaders from Fresno County and neighboring areas. <\/p>\n<p>The mission of the prayer breakfast is to lift the community in prayer, unite the Christian community to prayerfully support civic leaders, and have 100 local pastors attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>The local event began in the 1940s, when five businessmen started meeting at a Divisadero Street restaurant for prayer and fellowship. <\/p>\n<p>Christians of all backgrounds from the Fresno and Clovis communities are represented as the meeting has grown into one of the Central Valley\u2019s largest annual community gatherings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fresnoclovisprayerbreakfast.org\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to register.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 More than 2,500 people are expected to gather early Tuesday morning at the Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-180477","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\/180477","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=180477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}