Sunday Worship in The Great Auditorium
Sunday Worship Services are held in person in the Great Auditorium at 10:30 AM from June 8 to September 7, 2025 and Sunday evenings at 7:00 PM.
Services can also be viewed live or on demand in the player below, or in the player that includes all of our programming, at oceangrove.org/watch.
Interpretation for the deaf is provided during Sunday Morning Worship Services.
JUNE 8 — 10:30 AM
Rev. Dr. Deforest “Buster” Soaries
Deforest Soaries Solutions, LLC
Somerset, NJ
JUNE 15
Dr. David Ashcraft
President and CEO
Global Leadership Network
JUNE 22 — 10:30 AM
TBA
JUNE 29 — 10:30 AM
Dr. Richard Blackaby
President
Blackaby Ministries International
Atlanta, Georgia
JULY 6 — 10:30 AM
TBA
JULY 13 — 10:30 AM
Pastor Christian Andrews
Christian Andrews grew up in Middletown, New Jersey, where he spent summers at the Jersey Shore. He was a skater and a surfer, and though he loved youth group, he never dreamed he would become a pastor some day. In college, he studied physics, but before going off to graduate school he served as a ministry intern in Philadelphia for one year. Working as a teacher’s aid, he was pushed into the position of Bible teacher for the 8th grade students. The experience was a first step toward God’s call for him. He became a youth pastor the following year, and went off to Princeton Theological Seminary to become prepared for a new path. Christian currently serves as the Lead Pastor of Renaissance Church, in Springfield NJ. He lives in Summit, NJ with his wife Michelle, and their kids, Nate and Lily.
JULY 20 — 10:30 AM
Dr. Todd Williams
JULY 27 — 10:30 AM
TBA
AUGUST 3 — 10:30 AM
Rev. Dr. Jessica LaGrone
Rev. Dr. Jessica LaGrone is the Dean of the Chapel at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. She is an acclaimed pastor, teacher, speaker, and writer whose engaging communication style endears her to groups throughout the United States. A native of Texas, Jessica is an ordained pastor in the Texas Annual Conference at the United Methodist Church and previously served for nine years at The Woodlands United Methodist Church near Houston, Texas.
Jessica’s books and studies include Namesake: When God Rewrites Your Story, Under Wraps, and Broken and Blessed: How God Used One Imperfect Family to Change the World, and Set Apart: Holy Habits of Prophets and Kings have been used in personal and group studies around the world. Her book, also called Broken and Blessed, was released by Abingdon in Fall 2014, in addition to an all-church Advent study co-created by the pastoral staff at TWUMC to which she is a contributor called “Under Wraps.”
Jessica and her husband, Jim, have two young children, Drew and Kate.
AUGUST 10 — 10:30 AM
Dr. Duffy Robbins
AUGUST 11 — 7 PM
Sunday Evening Hymn Sing in the Bishop Janes Tabernacle
Led by America’s Keswick
AUGUST 17 — 10:30 AM
TBA
AUGUST 24
TBA
Sunday, AUGUST 24 — 7 PM
Sacred Masterworks Worship Event
Arthur Honegger’s King David
Click here for details.
August 31 — 10:30 AM
Pastor Tim Lucas
Tim Lucas is the founder and lead pastor of Liquid Church, named one of America’s Top 100 Fastest-Growing Churches by Outreach magazine (2018-2020). Tim started Liquid “on accident” with a dozen twenty-something friends meeting in the basement of a 150-year old church. Since launching in 2007, Liquid has experienced rapid growth and thousands of changed lives across the Northeast. The innovative church has grown to 7 locations around New Jersey with 5,200 people in attendance and more than 2,700 baptisms to date.
Tim is the author of Liquid Church: 6 Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ (Zondervan), recently named 2020 Leadership Book of the Year by Outreach magazine. A dynamic communicator, Tim is a national conference speaker known for creatively communicating the Bible with cultural insight, heart, and humor.
Tim’s innovative approaches to outreach have been spotlighted by CNN, Fox News, The Today Show and the New York Times. He hosts the Church Changer ministry podcast and leads the Lead Pastors Coaching Network to equip and mentor senior pastors, ministry leaders, and church planters to reach the next generation for Christ.
A graduate of Wheaton College (IL), Tim and his wife Colleen enjoy lake life with their two children in northern New Jersey.
SEPTEMBER 7 — 10:30 AM
Salvation Army Sunday
Col. Ivan Rock
Salvation Army
Musical Guest: New York Staff Band
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