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Walter Fenton, Veritas Appear July 11 at Ocean City Tabernacle

Walter Fenton (Photo courtesy of Ocean City Tabernacle)

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The Ocean City Tabernacle welcomes Walter Fenton for the 8:30 a.m. traditional and 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship services on Sunday, July 11. Fenton is an elder in the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He currently serves as the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s vice president for strategic engagement. He has served local churches in the Detroit and the Greater New Jersey Annual Conferences. He has also served as the chief operating officer for Good News Magazine and as vice president for advancement at Greenville University in Greenville, Illinois. Over the past 20 years, Fenton has written numerous articles for Good News Magazine and its e-newsletter Perspective.
Since 2017, he writes regularly for the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s e-newsletter Outlook. In 2018, Abingdon Press published “Are We Really Better Together? An Evangelical Perspective on the Division in the UMC,” a book Fenton co-authored with Rob Renfroe, president of Good News. Also returning to the Tabernacle on July 11 will be the vocal group Veritas, bringing their “classical crossover” style and a broad repertoire of songs from opera to pop and musical theater to traditional hymns. The free concert begins at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6:15 p.m. for first come, first served seating and a hymn sing at 6:30 p.m. For a full schedule of speakers, concerts, conferences and other events at the Tabernacle, visit octabernacle.org. Located at 550 Wesley Avenue, the Ocean City Tabernacle is a family ministry center where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is central.