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. 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

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hotel, a modern hotel, a motel, and other dormitory-style housing units. Other facilities include a dining hall, a

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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) has occupied the former, historic

Harvey Cedars Hotel The Harvey Cedars Hotel is the last remaining historic hotel of its size located on Long Beach Island, in the town of Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, United States. It began as a one-story house constructed by Sylvanus Cox between "soon after the W ...

since August 3, 1941. 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 Al until 1995 when the director position was passed on to his son, Jon Oldham. In 1949, the chapel was built on the property using

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windows purchased from the

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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

and

Camp Whelen Camp Whelen, a Christian summer camp for young girls, was founded in the early 1920s after the former Harvey Cedars Hotel was purchased by the Philadelphia YWCA. Camp Whelen survived until the Depression. After shutting down due to declining at ...

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. 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

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and ecclesial separation.

References

External links

*http://www.hcbible.org/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Harvey Cedars Bible Conference Hotels in New Jersey Harvey Cedars, New Jersey Buildings and structures in Ocean County, New Jersey Convention centers in New Jersey