{"id":376876,"date":"2026-08-20T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376876\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:44:08","slug":"drive-in-services-continue-at-central-christian-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376876\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-in services continue at Central Christian Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 75 years, Central Christian Church has offered drive-in worship on Sundays. The service starts at 8:15 a.m. and is open to not only cars but also motorcycles, bikes and walk-ins.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58797\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/37c273e9-2c64-4b39-a18b-ead1fbef8c511-1024x799.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-58797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(COURTESY OF CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58801\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000012352-874x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-58801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(COURTESY OF CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH)<\/p>\n<p>The first service dates back to Nov. 23, 1952, at the Winter Park Drive-In. According to the Orange County Regional History Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcommunitypaper.com\/articles\/the-way-we-were-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando\u2019s first drive-in theater, the Orlando Drive-In, was inspired by the Church to offer a similar service<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Services are now held in the lakeview parking lot of Central Christian Church, located at 250 SW Ivanhoe Blvd. Indoor services are offered at 10:45 a.m.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For nearly 75 years, Central Christian Church has offered drive-in worship on Sundays. The service starts at 8:15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-376876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376876","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=376876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}