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Ocean Park, Maine is a seaside resort community located in the town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Free Will Baptists founded the the Ocean Park Association in 1881 as a venue for a summer assembly season. The Charter issued by the State of Maine to the Association on January 24, 1881 to establish the Ocean Park Association states that the purpose of the corporation was "to establish a place of summer resort for holding religious, educational and other meetings at Old Orchard, in Saco, in the County of York."

The Association acquired the 1/2-mile by 1/2-mile tract of land along Saco Bay that became the community of Ocean Park. The Association continues to run a popular summer assembly program each year, and the New England Baptist Council, under the auspices of The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, operates the Oceanwood camping facility and The Pines retirement community in Ocean Park.