The Boardwalk Chapel ministry simply wouldn’t be possible without summer staff, volunteers, and church groups. These human voices, hands, and feet are the tools God uses to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ to the people on the boardwalk all summer long, as he provides opportunity! This witness is maintained through programs every night …
The Boardwalk Chapel resumed weekly neighborhood VBS this summer— a ministry suspended since the coronavirus lockdown. We are hoping for staff to begin to establish relationships with these neighborhood children and show them the love of Jesus, especially those staff members who will be here until the end of summer. On the first day, the …
The sun has long ago sunk below the horizon. Teams have scattered out onto the boardwalk, and the prayer team is behind the Chapel on the back porch, petitioning God for the night’s work. The Boardwalk Chapel door is wide open, and a group of four surrounds the Heaven and Hell machine. One staff member, …
Evenings at the Boardwalk Chapel are the focal point of the day, because that is when all the practice and training is realized as we focus on worship and outreach. It is when the group as a whole goes out and extends the Good News to the lost. It’s when we put on our joint …
A word, a tract. A glance at the words of Jesus displayed on the wall outside the Chapel door: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.” Perhaps it looks like futility. Can one of those single things really make a difference? It can. Gospel …
How should we look at the lost souls to whom we evangelize? Evangelism at the Chapel may look different than evangelism at home. Perhaps those to whom you evangelize at home are friends, family, or acquaintances, whereas most of the interactions on the boardwalk are fleeting. You may approach evangelism a little differently with those …
Apologetics training at the Chapel is broken into two parts—Defining and Defending the Faith. It is our aim that the Chapel staff this summer will come away with a reinforced understanding of what the Christian faith is, and how to defend it. There is no shame in our proclamation of the Gospel. Rather, when we …
“Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable, yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of His will, which is necessary unto salvation.” — Westminster Confession of Faith 1.1 This …
One helpful aspect of the School of Evangelism is that the teaching is accompanied by daily evangelism. This past week at the Boardwalk Chapel we saw guests and staff for the summer assemble, digging into the Word, studying evangelism in the theoretical and the practical. Some who came are experienced evangelists, and others are novices. …