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A service of worship at the tabernacle of a camp meeting of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, held at Wesleyan Methodist Camp in Stoneboro, Pennsylvania.. The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in England and Scotland as an evangelical event in association with the communion season.
Ocean Grove was founded in 1869 as an outgrowth of the camp meeting movement in the United States, when a group of Methodist clergymen, led by William B. Osborn and Ellwood H. Stokes, formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to develop and operate a summer camp meeting site on the New Jersey seashore. [16]
Ocean Grove Great Auditorium: Ocean Grove: 6,250 1977 Jersey Mike's Arena: Piscataway: 8,960 September 3, 1994 SHI Stadium: 52,454 unknown Plainfield High School Auditorium Plainfield: 1,525 1928 Main Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center: Rahway: 1,336 1926 Count Basie Center for the Arts: Red Bank: 1,568 2003 Starland Ballroom ...
Turk is particularly well known as resident organist of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. [2] [4] Since he took this post in 1974, [5] the famed Robert Hope-Jones organ has been enriched with a remarkably diverse tonal palette and expanded to its current size of 207 ranks and 12,200 total pipes, played from a five-manual console.
John Longhurst (born 1940) is an organist for the Tabernacle Choir from 1977 through 2007. He is also noted for writing the music to the Latter-day Saint hymn "I Believe in Christ" and being one of the few main forces behind the design of the Conference Center organ.
In the center of the community is The Campus (originally Tabernacle Park). Many of the larger communal structures are located here, including the original 1877 preaching stand, as well an 1880 book store and multiple educational buildings constructed around 1890. [ 9 ]
The building remained empty up until 1994 when the Ocean Grove Historic Preservation Society led by Herbert Herbst and formed for the sole purpose of saving the building bought the building from the Board of Education for $1. The building was sound, but it was badly deteriorated. The ceiling of the auditorium was lying on the floor.
Thomas Obadiah Chisholm [a] (July 29, 1866 – February 29, 1960) was an American hymnwriter, poet, and Methodist minister.. Chisholm was born on July 29, 1866, in a log cabin near Franklin, Kentucky. [4]