Harvey Cedars Bible Conference

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Harvey Cedars Bible Conference
FormerlyHarvey Cedars Presbyterian Bible Conference
IndustryChristian retreats
FoundedAugust 1, 1941;81 years ago (1941-08-01)
Founder John W. Murray
Headquarters Harvey Cedars, New Jersey
Key people
Jonathan Oldham (Executive Director)
Website hcbible.org

Harvey Cedars Bible Conference is a Christian retreat center in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, providing conferences, retreats, and other events. The Bible Conference has a long history of biblically-oriented ministries and vacations for families and people of all ages and ethnicities.

Contents

Summers feature week-long family and teen conferences. The rest of the year is filled with retreats for different organizations, including at least one retreat which brings in hundreds from other countries.

Lodging facilities include a Victorian hotel, a modern hotel, a motel, and other dormitory-style housing units. Other facilities include a dining hall, a dock and gazebo, tennis courts, an indoor heated swimming pool, an indoor hot tub, a gymnasium, volleyball court, and soccer fields.

History

Harvey Cedars Bible Conference (called Harvey Cedars Bible Presbyterian Conference until 1949) [1] has occupied the former, historic Harvey Cedars Hotel since August 3, 1941. [2]

Presbyterian minister Jack Murray purchased and restored the old hotel, which was abandoned for six years, and converted it into Harvey Cedars Bible Presbyterian Conference. After ten years of directing the conference, Jack left the operations to Albert Oldham. It was run by the senior Oldham until 1995 when the director position was passed on to his son, Jon Oldham.

In 1949, the chapel was built on the property using stained glass windows purchased from the Engleside Hotel in Beach Haven. These windows were completely removed around 2003 after years of damage from the high winds. Many other additions and renovations took place in the following decades.

For more information on the building's history, see Harvey Cedars Hotel and Camp Whelen as they occupied the same hotel during different eras.

Namesake

A significant signpost in the history of the Bible Presbyterian Church was the publication and approval of what came to be known as the Harvey Cedars Resolutions. [3] In 1945 the Eighth General Synod of the BPC convened at the denomination's conference center in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey. Thus the name applied to the resolutions. With its approval, the Bible Presbyterian Church codified much of what had already characterized the denomination, namely its stance on the twin issues of personal and ecclesial separation. [4]

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References

  1. "Bible Presbyterian, Etc. v. Harvey Cedars Bible Conference. Inc".
  2. Rhoads, Gladys Titzck and Nancy Titzck Anderson (2012). McIntire: Defender of Faith and Freedom. Xulon Press. p. 101. ISBN   9781619962323.
  3. "The Harvey Cedars Resolutions [The Bible Presbyterian Church, 1945]".
  4. Cook, Albert W. (August 2004). "The Bible Presbyterian Church: Striving For Purity and Adequately Serving the Lord" (PDF). WRS Journal: 5.

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