{"id":189259,"date":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189259\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","slug":"a-groundbreaking-ceremony-was-held-for-a-new-church-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189259\/","title":{"rendered":"A groundbreaking ceremony was held for a new church in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A groundbreaking ceremony was held today in northwest Fresno, marking the first new church building for the Presbytery of San Joaquin in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders and church members gathered at North Brawley to celebrate the milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Alex Gonzalez said, &#8220;So one of our biggest idea is to be able to build a place for the community and for those people that need assistance to get it. So this will be a place not only for worship but it will be a place for gatherings, for fellowship, and for personal growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new facility will include a sanctuary, classrooms, community space, daycare, and expanding room for worship, youth programs, and local outreach.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is set to begin in March, with completion expected during early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A groundbreaking ceremony was held today in northwest Fresno, marking the first new church&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-189259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189259","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=189259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}