In September of 2025, our minister, the Reverend Stephen Cook, will begin his fifth year of service to Hopedale Unitarian Parish.  Ordained in 1994, Rev. Steve is a graduate of Bangor Theological Seminary and has served Unitarian Universalist churches in Maine and Massachusetts as a settled and interim minister.  Prior to entering the ministry, he worked as a joiner for Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers, and in the latter 1970s, was a fencing master and varsity fencing coach for Cornell University.  He lives in Quincy with his wife, Eileen Kelly.