Outreach

Jeff and Annie Dieselberg serve in Bangkok, Thailand. Annie works with NightLight, a business-as-mission, which employs and empowers women affected by the sex trade. Jeff teaches urban ministry with a team of Thai pastors at three Bangkok seminaries and is a chaplain at NightLight.

Mario Morales serve as a missionary at the American Baptist Seminary at Cochabamba in Bolivia, teaching in the Theological department.

John and Debbie Coats serve in Cambodia. Debbie is a nurse practitioner and John assists local church leaders in training Christian values to parents and children.

Randy and Sandy Moyers are missionaries involved in church planting in Saint Etienne, France with CrossWorld.

The Atlantic City Rescue Mission feeds and shelters the homeless and less fortunate. In the name of Jesus, they support families through crises and help to get them back on their feet.

Divorce Care is a 13-week program and support group that meets in our church to help the recovery of those hurting from separation or divorce.

Jean Webster's Kitchen, located in the First Presbyterian Church of Atlantic City, feeds 300-400 hungry, homeless people daily. In addition to financial support, we make 250 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches each month for distribution on the weekends.

The Kodiak Baptist Mission in Alaska offers many much needed programs like daycare, a youth club, a coffee house, a family fitness center, respite care, and parenting classes. A mission work team from Seaview Baptist went to the Mission in August of 2005.

Eastern University is a Christian university of the arts and sciences dedicated to the preparation of undergraduate and graduate students for productive lives of Christian faith and service.

Palmer Theological Seminary's motto is "The Whole Gospel for the Whole World".

Bacone College is a four-year liberal arts college in Muskogee, Oklahoma, affiliated with the American Baptist Church, embracing a historic educational mission to American Indians. We sent a 15-member mission work team to the college in the summer of 2003.

Riverview Estates, the Baptist Home of South Jersey, provides housing and services to senior citizens in order to maintain, restore and promote good health and well being in an atmosphere of caring and Christian concern.

Linwood Nursery School meets five days a week during the school year in the education wing of the church building.

Seaview Baptist hosts weekly meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Al-anon.

Ranch Hope ministers to children and their families through adventure activities, camps, counseling, residential treatment and special education services.

Baptist Camp Lebanon has summer camp for youth in grades 1 through 12. The rest of the year it is available for weekend retreats.

Green Lake Conference Center is a year-round Christian conference center set on the deepest lake in Wisconsin. They offer refreshment and renewal through training, worship, fellowship and recreation.

Our sister church, the Haitian Evangelical Baptist Church meets in the NJ Baptist headquarters near Trenton.

The American Baptist Churches USA offer resources to local churches to carry out these ministries as well as enable ministries beyond the reach of any one local church nationally and internationally.

South Shore Ministries Thrift Stores is an outreach program of Spiritual Renewal Ministries to provide furniture and household items, for needy and homeless people when they find a place to live.

GreenFaith is New Jersey’s interfaith coalition for the environment. "Caring for the earth is a religious value. Environmental stewardship is a moral responsibility." GreenFaith gave Seaview an energy audit and made recommendations that not only reduced our carbon footprint, but saved the church money as well.

Crossworld operates six Furlough Missionary Cottages, located about two blocks from the beach in Ventnor for use by missionaries and their families on home assignment. Our assistance helps keep their costs affordable.

The World Mission Offering supports the work of 2,500 short- and long-term missionaries doing work with local partners in 76 countries around the world.

The America For Christ Offering supports ministries that transform lives, churches and communities in the U.S. — bringing hope to children in poverty and sharing the gospel through evangelism, discipleship, congregational transformation and prophetic justice.

One Great Hour of Sharing helps rebuild communities ravaged by natural disasters, creates sustainable sources of income for rural villages, provides micro-credit to women to start poverty-escaping businesses, teaches trades and job skills, offers children a chance to survive past the age of 5 and go to school, and much more.

Through the Retired Ministers and Missionaries Offering, American Baptist congregations say thank you in a tangible way to retired ministers and missionaries or their widowed spouses. The offering provides them with emergency and other financial assistance and “Thank You” checks.

The women of Seaview are involved with many mission projects, through American Baptist Women, like making treat bags for shut-ins, rolling bandages for White Cross, and sending Love Gifts for urgent special needs for missionaries.

The Ecumenical Food Pantry, located at GraceLutheranChurch in Somers Point, provides food to families in need in our local area. The Pantry has provided over 500,000 meals in addition to distributing food baskets during the holidays. The 1st Sunday of every month, we collect can goods and non-perishables for the Food Pantry.

ABCNJ seeks to reach New Jersey for Christ by being Christ-centered, mission focused and pastoral in spirit. Our goal is to help our churches, pastors, and regional ministries be faithful in service and healthy expressions of Christ's presence in our world.

At Christmas time, volunteers from Seaview purchase Angel Gifts for parents who can't afford them for their children. Each gift presents an opportunity to share the love and hope of Christ with each family.

The Office of the General Secretary provides servant leadership through vision, resources, training, administration and counsel for the whole denomiation. The Rev. Dr. A. Roy Medley serves as the General Secretary.