The Ballard Vale United Church is a church following both the Methodist and Congregational faiths but will accept anybody into its community. The congregation is rooted in two different churches that both began in Andover in 1850. The two churches, the Union Congregational Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, decided to merge in 1955. The church has been located at its current spot on Clark Road since 1967. The church still embodies both the Methodist and and the Congregational faiths.