The church owns a historic cemetery adjacent to the site of its first meeting house and briefly operated a private Christian school in the 1950s and '60s.

Asked to defend himself before the Classis of Montgomery meeting at Owasco, New York in 1819, he affirmed that he believed and preached a doctrine of the unlimited atonement of death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Notwithstanding that admission, Classis Montgomery failed to contradict or discipline Ten Eyck, whereupon the matter was appealed to the higher court of the church, the General Synod.

[5] Demarest joined the secession movement, and on June 11, 1824, he led 68 members of the two congregations, including two elders, out of the Dutch Reformed Church.

[12][13] Shortly after being organized in 1824, land near the present-day Historic Monsey Cemetery was donated to the new church, and work was immediately begun to construct a building.

Nevertheless, because the Hollanders were by and large a Dutch-speaking group, whereas Classis Hackensack of the True Reformed Dutch Church were primarily English speakers, the decision was made in 1873 not to unite but simply to support and serve each other any way needed.

Charles Van Houten was a Freemason, and he agreed that he would withdraw from the organization, in submission to the rules, if he were to join with Classis Hackensack.

The Stated Clerk sent a letter to Classis Hackensack informing them that they would protest the admission of Charles Van Houten and would not recognize him as a minister of the gospel.

The newly independent Classis Hackensack quickly passed a resolution to deal with the trouble that had arisen in the period 1899 (1899)–1908 (1908): "Resolved that in the future we eliminate the inquiry respecting all secret societies according to Art.

The church continued to meet during the summer months, relying on seminary students to fill the pulpit, but began to close during the winter.

The members voted at a congregational meeting held on May 3, 1921 to deed the church property to Classis Hackensack, and that was accomplished in a quit-claim deed dated July 20, 1921, executed by Crine Hook, "as sole surviving elder and trustee of the True Reformed Dutch Church of West New Hempstead.

At the May 18, 1927 meeting, the members voted to give $25 to help relieve suffering from the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, one of the greatest natural disasters the country had yet experienced.

Harold Dekker, who would later be called to pastor the Christian Reformed Church of Englewood, ministered in Monsey during the summer of 1940 while still a seminary student.

A new parsonage was erected by the people in 1950, and on September 26, 1952, the Monsey Christian Reformed Church was re-organized, having grown from one member in 1948 to fourteen families.

With the opening of the New York State Thruway and the Tappan Zee Bridge in the mid-1950s, Rockland County grew rapidly—and the Monsey Church with it.

Along with a rising trend in the cost of living, an increasing number of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews have settled in Monsey and the immediate area.

Present-day Monsey, like nearby Kaser and New Square (and Kiryas Joel in Orange County) can be considered a modern-day suburban shtetl.

In a letter dated March 22, 2005 from the Stated Clerk of Classis Hudson of the Christian Reformed Church, the congregation was informed that the Classis approved a motion to "acquiesce in the decision of the New Hope CRC of Monsey, NY to disaffiliate itself with the Christian Reformed Church in North America."

(Letter from William D. Vander Werp to Dick L. Van Halsema of February 16, 1950[46])"They were lovely folks, anything they had in their gardens was shared with us but they lacked church enthusiasm.

Dr. De Korne, to Dick L. Van Halsema, dated September 12, 1955[50]"The present oldest member of the congregation in 1955 tells an amusing incident about Mr. Steen.

According to Mrs. [Phebe] Swan, who often entertained visiting preachers in those days, Peter Steen went into the long-unused Chapel to give it a thorough cleaning.

After they were re-hung, Mr. Steen returned to Mrs. Swan's home and, at her insistence, submitted to a thorough scrubbing of head, neck, and back attended to personally by 'Aunt Phebe'!

On one occasion we recall the auditorium was filled to the doors when Mr. LeRoy Conklin and Miss Stella C. Wagoner were united in marriage on April 4, 1926.

Concerning our labors as Home Missionary in the East ... we concentrated our main efforts in Monsey in order to revive the cause of the Lord which to all appearances was fast dying out.

The forces of evil with which the church coped were the Masonic lodge, the commercial movie, and general spirit of worldliness.

(Letter from John Beebe to Dick L. Van Halsema[54])"The people of Monsey for the greater part were not in the habit of attending church regularly and much mission work was needed here.

[55])a new society was formed when a growing number of younger women with small children found it difficult to attend the afternoon Martha Circle meetings.

Israel Saffer of the Museum of Spring Valley and Countryside worked vigorously in the 1960s to enlist help from the government and community groups to maintain the cemetery.

The cemetery is maintained by community groups such as the Monsey Lions Club and the Stony Point Battle chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Other teachers at the school were Eleanor Sietsema, M. Louise Crawford, Faye Campbell (aide), James Stabile (music), Katherine Hunt, Donald Vittner, and Constance Pryce.