{"id":218996,"date":"2026-04-04T21:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218996\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:11:23","slug":"miami-church-gives-away-free-gas-as-prices-continue-to-increase-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218996\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami church gives away free gas as prices continue to increase \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With gas prices continuing to climb, one South Florida church is helping people ease that financial burden.<\/p>\n<p>New Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, located at 1350 NW 95th Street in Miami, gave away free gas at 7-Eleven on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>They called the event \u201cPeace at the Pump.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The church was able to put $25 in a little more than 100 cars.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the free gas, church members prayed for people while they got their tanks filled.<\/p>\n<p>AAA says the current average gas price in Florida is $4.215. A week ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=FL\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=FL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">average gas price in Florida<\/a> was $3.951.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers said they were grateful for the free gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$25 may not seem a lot to some people, but I got $25 worth of gas and the prices going up now,&#8221; a driver said. &#8220;I thank you for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The church\u2019s pastor emphasized the importance of meeting people\u00a0where they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGas prices are just skyrocketing, and a lot of people are trying to decide to get gas or groceries,\u201d Senior Pastor\/Teacher Pastor Al Jackson, Jr. said. \u201cToday, we&#8217;re trying to help with that decision, and if you can take care of the groceries, we&#8217;ll help you with your gas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With gas prices continuing to climb, one South Florida church is helping people ease that financial burden. New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,807],"class_list":["post-218996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}