{"id":443860,"date":"2026-10-31T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:04:09","slug":"the-leading-lights-of-tallahassees-historic-bethel-missionary-baptist-church-now-have-an-earthly-avenue-named-in-their-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443860\/","title":{"rendered":"The leading lights of Tallahassee&#8217;s historic Bethel Missionary Baptist Church now have an earthly avenue named in their honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Tallahassee&#8217;s longest-serving church pastors now has a street named in his honor. New signs designating the thoroughfare in honor of the Reverend R.B. Holmes and his wife, Dr. Gloria Price Holmes went up on October 29.<\/p>\n<p>Before the sign mounting, Tallahassee City Commissioner and Mayor Pro-Tem Curtis Richardson told the crowd of well-wishers at Holmes&#8217; Bethel Missionary Baptist Church how it all came to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was on September 9th in a unanimous vote of the Tallahassee City Commission that we made today possible; naming a portion of Virginia Street after this wonderful couple that has done so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pastor and Mrs. Holmes came to Tallahassee 40 years ago. He was named pastor of the historic church once led by the legendary C.K.Steele for whom a part of Orange Avenue is now named. Holmes, visibly touched by the honor, spoke barely above a whisper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Tallahassee. I love the people of Tallahassee. And I love the members of Bethel Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Pastor R.B.Holmes and Dr. Gloria Price Holmes address the crowd of well-wishers.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793487849_444_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    Pastor R.B.Holmes and Dr. Gloria Price Holmes address the crowd of well-wishers. <\/p>\n<p>A lifelong advocate for social justice and community betterment, Holmes says he&#8217;ll redouble his campaign to curb youthful gun violence in the wake of the recent shooting on Perry Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Tallahassee&#8217;s longest-serving church pastors now has a street named in his honor. New signs designating the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-443860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443860","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=443860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}