{"id":182354,"date":"2026-02-18T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:36:10","slug":"faith-and-enterprise-converge-at-fresno-prayer-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182354\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith and enterprise converge at Fresno prayer breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dyer-2026-prayer-breakfast-1200x637.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"man on stage at a podium with a screen with his image above his head\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer speaks at the Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. Photo by Ben Hensley<\/p>\n<p>About 2,650 business leaders, community members and church leaders gathered inside the Fresno Convention Center Tuesday morning for the annual Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast, believed to be the largest prayer breakfast in the country outside of Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>The annual prayer breakfast started in the 1940s with five businessmen meeting at a Divisadero Street restaurant, and has evolved into one of the region\u2019s highest-attended annual events. It calls to the faithful to pray for those in positions of power.<\/p>\n<p>The event\u2019s keynote speaker was Steve Green, the president of Hobby Lobby and the chairman of the board for The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D,C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Green discussed the history of Hobby Lobby, and its beginnings in 1970 as a home-based frame manufacturer that expanded to a retail store two years later. Today, Hobby Lobby has over 1,000 stores across the country, including two in Fresno and one each in Clovis, Hanford and Visalia.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke of a 1985 financial crisis that threatened the company\u2019s survival and changed the way the family viewed the business and how God helped push the family through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere it not for God intervening, we would not be here,\u201d Green said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hobby Lobby tithes half of its profits for ministry efforts. Its other philanthropic efforts center on the Museum of the Bible, opened in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He described the museum\u2019s three main content areas, the history of the Bible, including manuscripts and archaeological evidence; its cultural impact in fields such as art, science and education; and its narrative content presented as a unified story across many books and authors. He emphasized ongoing global Bible translation efforts and the museum\u2019s role in highlighting them.<\/p>\n<p>Green said the 430,000 square-foot museum takes nine eight-hour days to get through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added that the museum is designed to \u201cinvite all people to engage the transformative power of the Bible. That\u2019s what we are striving to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amir Tsarfati, president of Behold Israel, a nonprofit ministry that provides bibles, will keynote next year\u2019s event in March. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer speaks at the Fresno-Clovis Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. 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