{"id":297300,"date":"2026-05-17T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:50:07","slug":"texas-pastor-examines-gen-z-faith-resurgence-at-rededicate-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297300\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas pastor examines Gen Z faith resurgence at Rededicate 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\" data-v-20113cb6=\"\">Pastor Jonathan Pokluda discusses Gen Z\u2019s growing interest in faith and rising church attendance among young people on \u2018The Sunday Briefing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\" data-v-20113cb6=\"\">Jonathan Pokluda, lead pastor of Harris Creek Baptist Church, details the rising interest in faith among Generation Z. He explains how young adults, often burdened by anxiety and seeking purpose, are discovering Christianity. Pokluda&#8217;s ministry grew from 150 to 7,000 young adults, driven by a simple message of Jesus Christ&#8217;s death and resurrection, changing lives at the Rededicate 250 event on the National Mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pastor Jonathan Pokluda discusses Gen Z\u2019s growing interest in faith and rising church attendance among young people on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95933,13339,95932,27,29,28,2459],"class_list":["post-297300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-news-videos","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297300","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=297300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}