{"id":123406,"date":"2026-01-14T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123406\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:31:08","slug":"new-home-is-an-answered-prayer-for-one-woman-and-her-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123406\/","title":{"rendered":"New home is an answered prayer for one woman and her daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A groundbreaking ceremony today marked the beginning of a new chapter for Marley Guevara and her daughter, who will soon call a new Habitat for Humanity home their own.<\/p>\n<p>The home is being built on the 2300 block of Mary Street, near Saint Joseph&#8217;s Catholic Church. Both Guevara and her young daughter participated in today&#8217;s groundbreaking ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try to, you know, to work and do what I can for her. You know my life revolves around her so everything I do is for her,&#8221; Guevara said. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited for her to grow up in a house especially because she&#8217;s, you know, about to be 5 so it&#8217;s exciting to see her grow up and have a back yard to play in and all that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Habitat for Humanity homes are not given away for free. Recipients like Guevara must work for their homes, including performing physical construction work alongside completing education requirements and volunteer hours.<\/p>\n<p>The new home represents an answered prayer for the family as they prepare to build their future together.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A groundbreaking ceremony today marked the beginning of a new chapter for Marley Guevara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,1051],"class_list":{"0":"post-123406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-westside-corpus-christi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}