{"id":388599,"date":"2026-09-02T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388599\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:18:17","slug":"historic-tampa-church-swaps-sunday-service-for-community-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388599\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Tampa Church Swaps Sunday Service for Community Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fl (WFLA) \u2014 Beulah Baptist Institutional Church canceled Sunday worship service to serve their community by giving out free food to several neighborhoods across Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Beulah Baptist Institutional Church was built in 1865 and is Tampa\u2019s first Black Baptist church.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/local-news\/manatee-county\/welcome-to-florida-couple-finds-massive-gator-in-driveway-after-moving-to-florida\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\u2018Welcome to Florida\u2019: Couple finds massive gator in driveway after moving to Florida\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate their 161st year of serving this community, their members canceled Sunday service to provide free meals to five different communities throughout Tampa Bay. It\u2019s their Boots on the Ground initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Beulah\u2019s impact spanned from Tampa to New Port Richey as they visited two low-income housing complexes, a senior living facility, a homeless shelter and a family shelter. Their goal was to provide free meals, lift people\u2019s spirits, spread encouragement and pray for their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Beulah is now getting ready for their 2nd Annual Blessings Bazaar. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"720\" width=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Blessing-Bazaar-event-flyer-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3409847 amp-wp-f8d2e22\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People can stop by their church at 1006 W Cypress St, Tampa, FL 33606 to pick up new or gently used household items, clothes, shoes, decor and more. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fl (WFLA) \u2014 Beulah Baptist Institutional Church canceled Sunday worship service to serve their community by giving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-388599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388599","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=388599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}