Reverend Stephen M. Shick
Email: Minister@UCMH.org
Phone: 978-562-9180

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Reverend Shick has an unusual style of delivering his sermons - he does so without notes, while walking around the front of the church and talking to the congregation. He also plays the guitar and sings during service on occasion.

Reverend Shick served the Universalist Unitarian Church of Haverhill (Mass.) as its minister for nine years. During that time the congregation moved through many transitions as it grew its membership number from 95 members to 145 (a 66% increase), saw a 30% increase in Sunday service attendance, completed major renovations to its building - including a major capital campaign with $250,000 pledged - and established new and nationally recognized programs of community service and spiritual development. In Haverhill, Reverend Shick helped found the Center for Spiritual Development, a network of adult RE courses at the Haverhill church that serves the greater community as well as church members. He also helped establish a food pantry in the church as well as the Cornucopia Project, which grows an acre of sweet corn for area food pantries each summer.

Before entering parish ministry in Haverhill, Reverend Shick served with distinction in the national social-justice movement. He founded the SANE Education Fund of Pennsylvania and Consider the Alternatives, a national radio program about foreign and domestic policy issues, intended to help end the Vietnam War and establish alternative national spending priorities. His radio show was broadcast regularly on over 400 commercial and noncommercial radio stations.

Stephen is married to Jo Ann Mulready-Shick, who is the Undergraduate Program Director of the nursing program at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Together they make their home in Lexington, Mass. They have three grown or college-age children: Dora, Michael, and Sarah. Stephen’s mother, 93, lives at the Dana Home in Lexington, Mass.