Sundays at North Parish - The North Parish Church of North Andover

October Services – Sundays at 10AM

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 824 0481 1225, Passcode: NP375)

Order of Service for Sunday, October 25, 2026

In case of a Sunday snowy day, please see here for our snow policy.

Upcoming October Service

This Sunday: North Parish’s Birthday Sunday
Celebrating the 381^st Year of the Congregation
& the 190^th Year of the Fifth Meeting House

Leading: Rev. Lee Bluemel, Are We Emerson’s Wildest Dream?

Music: Children’s Choir & Youth Singers; Adult Vocal Choir with John Middleton-Cox, Christina Kennedy

Time for Wonder: Whose Birthday Is It?

Member Witness: Bill Putnam on Legacy Giving

Following the Service: 11 am – Rededication of the Fifth Meeting House, outside in the circle

4 pm: Representation and How To Get It: A one woman play about Julia Ward Howe- Unitarian, writer, activist, reformer

In 1836, the year the Fifth Meeting House was completed and dedicated, former Unitarian minister Ralph Waldo Emerson published the book Nature. In it, he asked “Why should not we have an original relation to the universe?” and declared “the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God”. He developed the idea of the “Oversoul”, an all-pervasive spiritual force that unites all individual souls and the natural world. Emerson became an inspiration to and leading figure of the American Transcendentalist movement, which was in many ways a movement within Unitarianism. 190 years later, what would Emerson think of us?

Want to watch a service you missed?

Videos of recorded services from recent years are available on the North Parish YouTube channel.

What to expect during a Sunday Service

There are many ways to participate in our service. Whether you choose to sit and absorb, stand and sing, or offer your talents to our musical offerings or a reading, we are glad to see you. Here is a broader description of what you might find.

There’s more than just Sunday!

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Logistics details

Our parking at North Parish is not ideal. Options include:

Park in spaces on Great Pond Road (please leave access to the sidewalk where marked by the diagonal lines)
Those with disabilities and infants can park right next to the circle and accessible walkway in front of the building
Park head in on the grass on the left side of Academy Road as you head up the hill from the Meeting House
Park head in on the grass in front of the Second Burying Ground (the cemetery just past the yellow house on Academy Road)
Park in the town lot near the Youth Center
There may be parking around the North Andover Historical Society building (red brick building)
Please try avoid the grass in front of our neighbors’ homes. Thank you!

Here is an aerial map showing the location of nearby parking.