Garden City Chapel & Retreat

EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE

The Garden City Chapel & Retreat sponsors a community sunrise service every Easter Sunday. It is held two miles south of the Garden City Pier on Waccamaw Drive.

The service is interdenominational and the attire is casual.

Sunrise service is at 6:30 a.m. In the event of bad weather, the service will be held at the chapel.

A 10 a.m. Easter Sunday worship service will also be held at the chapel located at 316 Dogwood Drive N., Garden City Beach, SC 29576.

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About the garden city chapel & retreat

Established in 1952, the Garden City Chapel welcomes locals and visitors with a place to worship within the Garden City Beach community. Garden City Chapel also serves as a retreat center that provides facilities to church groups and children’s homes.

In addition to the main chapel, the property houses six dorms that can accommodate close to 600, a worship center that can hold approximately 1,100, and a small chapel that can seat 200. Combined, the retreat center can host around 2,000 young people from different denominational church groups.

The Garden City Chapel & Retreat began hosting children's homes in 1962 as a mission to serve underprivileged children. The groups stay in the dorms at no cost and are treated to activities along the Grand Strand including the Carolina Opry, Wild Water & Wheels, WonderWorks, and the Ripley’s Aquarium. During their stay, each child receives a chapel t-shirt as well as ice cream and drinks daily from the Sea Shack. Some meals are also provided by the chapel.

Funds to host the children's homes are provided by visiting groups to the retreat, people within the community, and others who have heard of the mission and want to help.

Church groups visiting the retreat are encouraged and challenged to drop coins and dollars into Children's Home boxes placed within each dormitory. Groups within the top 20 contribution totals are added to the Top 20 Children’s Homes Contribution list which is also placed within each dorm.

One hundred percent of the contributions received are spent on underprivileged children.