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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. |
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Also in Thailand, Seaview
Baptist has a sister church, the Chaoren
Krung Maitrichit Church. |
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Mario
and Iris Morales serve as missionaries at the American Baptist
Seminary at Cochabamba in Bolivia. Mario teaches in the
Theological department and Iris teaches Psychology.
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We have a sister church in
Bolivia, the Luminares Baptist
Church. |
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John
and Debbie Coats serve in Cambodia. Debbie is a nurse
practitioner and John assists farmers in drilling wells, growing food,
and establishing fish ponds. |
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Randy and Sandy Moyers are
missionaries involved in
church planting in Saint Etienne, France with CrossWorld. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Seaview Baptist supports the ministry of Keams Canyon, a Baptist church
on the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Palmer Theological
Seminary's motto is "The Whole Gospel for the Whole World". |
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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. |
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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. |
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Caring helps meet the needs of
the elderly and disabled in our area.
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Linwood
Nursery School meets five days a week during the school year in the
education wing of the church building. |
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Seaview
Baptist hosts weekly meetings of Alcoholics
Anonymous, Al-anon, and Overeaters Anonymous. |
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Ranch Hope ministers to children
and their families through adventure activities, camps, counseling,
residential treatment and special education services. |
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Baptist Camp Lebanon has summer
camp for youth in grades 1 through 12. The rest of the year it is
available for weekend retreats. |
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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. |
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Our sister church, the Haitian
Evangelical Baptist Church meets in the NJ Baptist headquarters
near Trenton.
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The 1st Sunday of every month, we
collect can goods and non-perishables for the local Food Bank.
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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.
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At Christmas time, volunteers from
Seaview purchase and deliver gifts to the children of inmates in their
parent’s name. Each gift delivery also presents an opportunity to share
the love and hope of Christ with each family. Through Angel Tree, these children feel a
parent’s love, despite their absence.
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