Minister & Staff

in July of 2025, following a standard two-year search under an interim minister, the congregation happily welcomed pastor Jonathan Pierce to First Parish. Jonathan graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 2006 and aspires to be ordained as a UU minister. He served Norwell VNA and other agencies as a hospice chaplain for fifteen years, and has most recently been serving as minister at Second Congregational Church in Cohasset. Committed to pastoral care for the spiritual but "non-practicing," Jonathan provides funeral, memorial, and wedding ceremony support to people not connected with religious/faith community, as co-owner of Pierce Brothers with his brother David. He is perhaps best known locally as the lead organizer of Mindfulness Plus, a mindfulness practice facilitated in approachable and non-religious terms, which holds together a diverse and engaged community of practitioners; it nurtures support and kindness that is extended to others via community service and volunteer opportunities. Jonathan is married to Doreen and is step-dad to two teenage boys.

At our 381st Annual Meeting in May 2015, our congregation voted to honor the Rev. Mr. Richard M. Stower with the title of Minister Emeritus. This is the first Minister Emeritus in our church’s long history and we are happy to recognize him for his long and respected service to our community and congregation.
Rich Stower received a Ministry of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1990. He was ordained at the First Parish in Concord, MA and has served as a part-time minister in Andover, NH and as interim minister in Keene, NH before serving First Parish, Scituate from 1992-2011. He is the author of A History of the First Parish Church in Scituate, Massachusetts: Its Life and Times, which won the 2013 Congregational History Award from the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society. Rich is married to Nancy Richards-Stower, an employment law attorney. In 2016, Rich and Nancy retired to Yarmouth, ME. 

Beth Dubuisson became music director of First Parish UU Church of Scituate in the Fall of 2006. She was born in Rochester, New York in 1958. She completed the music preparatory program at the Eastman School of Music, and received a bachelor's degree in music education from Indiana University with high distinction. She taught music briefly in the Gloucester MA public school system and was organist for the Christian Science Church in Gloucester. Beth taught piano privately at the Mary Johnson Piano Studio in Newburyport, and later became music director and organist at the People's United Methodist Church in Newburyport. She married David Dubuisson in 1986 and began her own piano studio in Wayland. Since 1989, she has been a judge for the National Guild of Piano Teachers. She has been active in various local, state and national music teachers' associations. Beth currently teaches piano at her home in Kingston. She is the rehearsal accompanist for the Fine Arts Chorale in Weymouth. She has two adult daughters, Jillian and Sophie, and a step-daughter, Eva-Marie.

Tricia M. joined us at the start of the 2024-25 church year. She is an elementary school Specialized Paraprofessional, and also works as admin at a local center for wellness and healing. Tricia's extended family includes her husband and their three amazing children between elementary-school and college age (plus rescue dog Bella Luna), her parents, and her brother and his husband and their two dogs.

Emily S. joined us in May 2025. She grew up in Norwell, MA, and after a decade on the west coast moved back to Scituate in 2007, where she lives with her husband, son, rescue dog, and chickens. Her career has consisted of a variety of administrative support and communication roles with nonprofit organizations.