Follow us on Twitter

In addition to the website and Facebook, we’re pleased to announce you can also follow us on Twitter: @monkseatonurc Please remember to tag us in tweets if you’re at the church for services and other events. Tweets are posted by Tim Cooke (@timatneatt) and/or Lucy Cooke (@cookelucy0206). We reserve the right to block, delete and/or report […]

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Our new minister

We are extremely pleased to announce that at an Extraordinary Church Meeting held on Sunday 3rd May 2015, church members voted to call Mr Matthew Prevett to become our new minister, with 76 votes in favour and 9 against from 85 voting members (89.4% in favour). Matthew cordially accepted the call, so is confirmed to be ordained […]

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Concert by The Darling Dollies

St Andrew’s Flower Team are excited to announce their upcoming concert that sees a welcome return of “The Darling Dollies”, the North-East based professional female vocal trio who specialise in 1940s close-harmony singing with a vintage vibe. With light-hearted chat and a mix of music spanning from the 1940s to modern day this is guaranteed […]

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Annual Church Meeting 2015

Our annual Church Meeting for 2015 takes place on Thursday 19th March 2015 from 7.30pm. Refreshments will be served from 7.00pm. At the meeting we will elect members into official roles and teams necessary for the smooth running of the church, receive reports from the various teams, groups and organisations associated with the church and […]

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Our new logo

At our Elder’s meeting on Thursday 12th March 2015, it was unanimously agreed to adopt this image as our new church logo. Designed by our online communications administrator and Elder, Tim Cooke, it sees the cross and fish image from the URC logo, to represent us as a Church fellowship, within an image of the new […]

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Tony reaches 90

We were pleased to help Tony Bates celebrate his 90th birthday this week, with wine and cake for all during coffee after the service on Sunday 22nd February 2015. Although less able bodied than in his younger years, Tony has lost none of his party spirit and was wooing some of our visiting Charity representatives. […]

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2014 Supported Charity presentation

Each year members of St. Andrew’s URC nominate charities that the church will support through the year via various fund raising events organised by the Activities team and through other collections. Our charities for 2014 were: St. Oswald’s Hospice The Alzheimers’ Society RNLI Cullercoats An impressive £945 was raised to be shared equally between the three charities. […]

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Retirement of Revd. Dr. David Peel

Sunday 13th July 2014 saw David taking his last service at St. Andrew’s Monkseaton where he has been minister since September 2009. During this time he has provided the congregation with stimulating and interesting services as well as holding much appreciated Bible Study classes. The service was followed by an informal church lunch for 120 […]

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