can't find a church!

Annegirl13

I am planning on having my reception at a venue in Galloway, NJ, but my fiance and I want to be married in a church rather than at the reception site.  We are both at school in Virginia right now, so obviously we cannot be married there, but we have asked our pastor from school to marry us.  We attend a PCA church and so are looking for a PCA church- or one that will let a PCA minister perform the ceremony in their building- within 30 minutes of Galloway.  I'm having a hard time finding one, especially because many churches don't have websites, so the only way to see the church is to drive an hour away and looks at it.  Does anyone know of any pretty churches in that area?  Thanks!

miguelhilary2010

Is "PCA" Presbyterian?

There's a cute Presbyterian church in Mays Landing on Main Street.  There are also a lot of Christian churches that are kind of non-denominational in the area, would you be willing to marry in a non-denom church if your own minister can do the ceremony?

Annegirl13

Oh, sorry, "PCA" is Presbyterian Church of America (there are two main branches of the Presbyterian church).  I don't really care about the denomination of the church, as long as they will let our pastor perform the ceremony there.  I'll look up the one in Mays Landing and see how far away that is, and I'll search for non-denominational churches as well.  Thanks for the suggestion!

miguelhilary2010

Are you having the reception at Carriage House or Ram's Head?  If so, Mays Landing is about a 15-20min drive, but really easy.  There's an Absecon Presbyterian Church that I found online, but I dont know what that looks like.  Community Presbyterian Church in Brigantine, again I dont know what it looks like but that's near the ocean if you're interested.

I know there's Assumption Church nearby, but that's Catholic so I doubt you can use it.  Shore Fellowship is a little more relaxed in its rules.  That's located in EHT http://www.shorefellowship.net/360317.ihtml

Hopefully others will chime in with some other locations.  I'm blanking right now.

jaslugo

Here's a list of churches within a 15mi. radius of Galloway. I'm sure there are more near Ram's Head/Carrage House/Seaview.

Absecon Presbyterian Church
‎208 New Jersey Avenue, Absecon, NJ 08201(609) 641-3759‎

abseconpresby.org

Yang Ji Koren Presbyterian Church
‎437 South Pitney Road, Galloway, NJ 08205 (609) 652-6400‎

Presbyterian Church USA Of Pleasantville‎
1311 South Main Street, Pleasantville, NJ 08232-3511(609) 641-0596‎

Faith Presbyterian Church PCA‎
232 West Mill Road, Northfield, NJ 08225-1806(609) 272-1750‎

Jethro Memorial Presbyterian Church‎
423 North Ohio Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401-3110(609) 344-5529‎

Victory First Presbyterian Church‎
1013 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401-7416(609) 348-0580‎

First Presbyterian Church
‎701 Wesley Avenue, Ocean City, NJ 08226-3731(609) 399-1833‎

firstpresocnj.net

Annegirl13

Oh wow, thanks for all the help ladies!  I want to have the reception at the Carriage House but want to make sure I have options for the ceremony before I book anything.  I wish I could find pictures of these places on-line...I'll have to plan a day-trip to go visit.  It looks like there are plenty of possibilities though.