{"id":366600,"date":"2026-07-09T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366600\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:24:27","slug":"corpus-christi-faith-leaders-gather-to-celebrate-god-for-recent-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366600\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi faith leaders gather to celebrate God for recent rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Crow, Corpus Christi Caller Times<\/p>\n<p>Thu, July 9, 2026 at 8:48 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"630\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/f30923c6d42dc0d6f491f26b6a48593c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Attendants raise their hands in prayer at a gathering in Cole Park in Corpus Christi on July 8, 2026. The focus of the event was praising God for recent rains and praying for more in the future.<\/p>\n<p> (Kirsten Crow\/Caller-Times)<\/p>\n<p>In drought, residents have prayed for rain \u2014 and now are praising God for the storms that dramatically rose the waters of Lake Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 people congregated in Cole Park on July 8 for a citywide prayer service led by about one dozen faith leaders from a spectrum of denominations, both celebrating the recent rains and appealing for more in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the gathering, small plastic containers of water from Lake Corpus Christi were prepared for attendants. They were blessed by a Catholic priest.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Crow covers city government and water news. Have a story idea? Contact her at kirsten.crow@caller.com.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: <a data-ylk=\"slk:In drought, praise for rain and prayers for Corpus Christi&#039;s water;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caller.com\/story\/news\/local\/our-water\/2026\/07\/09\/corpus-christi-water-drought-praise-god-for-rain\/90834752007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">In drought, praise for rain and prayers for Corpus Christi&#8217;s water<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirsten Crow, Corpus Christi Caller Times Thu, July 9, 2026 at 8:48 AM UTC Attendants raise their hands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[26432,155,157,156,9871],"class_list":["post-366600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-cole-park","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-lake-corpus-christi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366600","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=366600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}