Mission Statement :

As the Body of Christ, St. Andrew's is a spiritually diverse community committed to the realization of our Baptismal Covenant.

History Of The Church :

Shortly after 10:30 on Thursday morning, September 21, 1905, Professor Ernest Douglas of Boston took his position at the organ, as a choir of boys from the Church of the Advent, Boston, and All Saints' Church, Methuen, entered the church. Led by Bishop William Lawrence, the congregation gathered to celebrate the consecration of the new church building for All Saints', which had been organized in 1904. In this church building, forty five years later, the congregations of All Saints' and nearby St. John's, Lawrence, combined, renaming their new home St. Andrew's Church.

The erection of the church was made possible by the generous gift of Edward F. Searles of Methuen. Mr. Searles was a multimillionaire who had an ambitious and peculiar plan to establish Methuen as a cathedral city for Essex County and southern New Hampshire. Plans for the church were drawn by Henry Vaughan, who considered All Saints' one of the most important half timbered churches that he had designed. With the opening of the new All Saints' Church, Methuen acquired a beautiful building, rich in architectural features, and most substantial in construction. The church is set on a bottom half of local granite above which is the half timbering characteristic of Vaughan's work. The ends of the church are balanced by a broach spired tower and a gabled sacristy.

Among the interior appointments is a one-piece rood screen made by the Lang family of Oberammergau from wood of the Black Forest in Germany.