{"id":417138,"date":"2026-07-29T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417138\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:14:07","slug":"24-hours-on-a-bench-fresno-mission-director-seeks-mrbeast-for-life-changing-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417138\/","title":{"rendered":"24 hours on a bench: Fresno Mission director seeks MrBeast for life-changing talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Matt Dildine, director at the Fresno Mission, is trying to get American YouTuber MrBeast to sit with him on the bench. <\/p>\n<p>Every year, <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-rescue-mission-spends-24-hours-on-a-street-bench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dildine spends 24 hours on a bench<\/a> having conversations that matter with anyone who will take the time to sit.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/mrbeast-teams-up-with-grover-beach-police-for-jetson-one-electric-flying-vehicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MrBeast teams up with Grover Beach Police to fly Jetson ONE electric flying vehicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stories of hope. Healing. Addiction. Homelessness. Faith. Second chances.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Dildine is calling on MrBeast to invite his half-billion subscribers to join the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, we sit on a bench because we believe conversations can change lives. This year, we\u2019re inviting Mr. Beast to take a seat. Not because we need attention, but because we believe the stories shared on this bench deserve to be heard by millions. Every conversation about homelessness, hope, and restoration has the power to make a difference. And we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe conversations matter, help us get this in front of MrBeast :<\/p>\n<p>Tag him in the comments.Share this video.Invite your friends to do the same.One person might not get his attention.A community just might.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s show the world what can happen when people come together for something bigger than themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Matt Dildine, director at the Fresno Mission, is trying to get American YouTuber MrBeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-417138","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\/417138","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=417138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}