FULWELL METHODIST CHURCH

OUR HISTORY

Fulwell Methodist Church began life as an extension of Dock Street United Methodist church although the exact date is unknown. At the time the village of Fulwell was very small and worship took place in the loft of the blacksmith's shop. Soon afterwards a chapel in Atkinson Road was aquired and worship moved to here. where it remained for some 50 years.

Following the war and during the six years of ministry of Rev. Percy S. Carden the membership grew from 45 to 138 with comparable increases in the congregation, the Sunday school and the sisterhood as well as the development of a youth club which attracted the local children.

The congregations outgrew the small chapel in Atkinson road and it was decided that a larger buiding would be built in the new housing development of Seaburn Dene. on Saturday May 27th 1961 the congregation moved on mass into the new church on Dovedale Road, with the building being opened by the Right honerable Lord Lawson P.C. D.C.L. of Beamish with the words "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the Glory of God and the extension of his kingdom I open the door of this church". There followed a brief service conducted by the minister of the day Rev. Lewis H. Allison M.A.

In 2010 the church celebrated it's 50th year serving the community of Fulwell and it's new minister welcomed the then President of Conference, Alison Tomlin, share in our worship.