Ministry Team

Our new Minister A is the Rev Derek Peat who comes having had a varied career - assistant accountant for the SFA (yes football!), hospital chaplaincy, parish ministry in Troon, strategy officer with Glasgow Presbytery, and prior to our call, working in a locum post at Kirkintilloch. He is keen to get back into parish ministry and likes what he sees and hears about Montrose Trinity. Derek has two grown up children, both in the student phase, and his wife Eileen, is a cardiologist in Paisley.

As the newly appointed Youth and Family Worker for Montrose Trinity, I am thrilled to be joining the Ministry Team here and the great family of volunteers who have so clearly been serving this area so well for so long.I am a qualified teacher who has experience in supporting learners and maths within the secondary sector and classroom teaching in the primary sector. I have already enjoyed being introduced to the MYPlay children and families, the 10:10 young people and team, and the Messy Church families and team. I look forward to building on these relationships and also getting to know our cluster of schools in the catchment area. During covid pandemic I joined the Ministries Development team and was assigned to Aberdeen North Parish shortly after their union. This has given me a lot of experience in parish working and outreach. I served on the school chaplaincy team, with Scripture Union and worked extensively with many community partners including the homes for Ukraine initiative. Prior to entering teaching, by God’s grace, I ran my own clown/circus theatre company for a number of years. This gave me opportunity to work with children and youth ministry, outreach and commercially to share the goodness and mercy of our great God. I am thoroughly enjoying getting to know you all as a parish. I look forward to working together with you all, and the new ministers, as we join together to worship and serve our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, here in Montrose Trinity.

I am a Gable-ender through and through.... born and raised in Montrose and never moved.