The ordinary members of the Methodist Church in OG are very conservative - unlike the leadership. I remember them going ape when it was decided that the auditorium’s huge electric flag could no longer be lit on Sunday because it might offend “visitors from other countries”!! I don’t know if they reneged on that outrageous idea since the only foreigners I met there were looking for Asbury Park.
All summer long there, they have bible classes held outside and then a big meet up in August. It truly is a heavenly place. When we moved there, we bought cheap, because of the huge homeless population there. That’s long gone.
Some still reside in tents ....