Our Ministers
Reverend Stephen M. Shick
Senior Minister
Email: Minister@UCMH.org
Phone: 978-562-9180
- Sunday: 9-1 Worship, meetings & appointments
- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday:
in the Minister’s Study, visitation, evening
meetings and appointments - Thursday: study and worship preparation
- Friday: Sabbath
- Saturday: Rites of Passage, special events, and
meetings by appointment.
Rev. Stephen M. Shick, Senior Minister is an honors graduate of Crozer-Colgate Rochester Theological Seminary. Between 2000 and 2003 he was an Urban Fellow at Harvard Divinity School. He has served congregations in Portland, ME and Haverhill, MA. Before entering the parish he practiced a national ministry as U.S. Program Director for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Director of the Unitarian Universalist Peace Network, and founder and host of Consider the Alternatives, a nationally syndicated radio program.
Rev. Stephen is the author of Be the Change: Poems, Prayers and Meditations for Peacemakers and Justice Seekers, Consider the Lilies, a book of meditations, and Just Congregations, a guide to congregational justice making practices. His writings have appeared in numerous national and local publications. Rev. Stephen also leads seminars on “embodied preaching”, the art of preaching and public speaking without notes or manuscript.
He is married to Dr. JoAnn Mulready-Shick, who is on the nursing faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston. They have three grown children: Dora, Michael, and Sarah.
Reverend Alice Anacheka-Nasemann
Associate Minister
Email: ReligiousEducation@UCMH.org
Office hours: By appointment.
Reverend Alice Anacheka-Nasemann, who just finished four years as our Religious Education Director, is currently entering her first year as our Associate Minister, with a ministerial focus that includes lifespan faith development and membership growth. Combining a passion for children with a strong commitment to Unitarian Universalism, she holds a BA in early childhood development and a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School. Her experience includes 3 years as the Religious Education Director at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, NY and various internships, including working with homeless, orphaned, disabled, and gifted children in locations from NYC to Kenya to Nicaragua. She has also served as an intern or student minister at churches in Fredonia, Hamburg, East Aurora, and Rochester, NY. Alice lives in Hudson with her spouse, two children, and their dog and cat.
