Our Leadership and Staff.
Rev. Steve Scovell
Steve has been serving as the pastor of UPC since the fall of 2020. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. Steve has four year old son, Parker, named after the one (and many) Peter Parkers. He loves playing guitar, skateboarding, and watching Gilmore Girls in his spare time. He is an avid reader, sports fan, and enjoys talking about theology (sometimes to the point of existential crisis). Steve is passionate about community - creating a place where people feel safe, heard, and loved. To him, ministry is all about presence; it’s about showing up and being there for the people in our lives.
Rev. Kenneth DuBose
Kenneth DuBose, Sr. is one of Connecticut’s most talented Ministers of Music. His ministry began at the tender age of 9. He began preaching and ministering with his father’s singing group, “The Sensational Starlights” of Bridgeport, CT. In addition to his music ministry, Kenneth was licensed to preach the gospel in 1986.
Kenneth is a singer, pianist/organist, and performer. Some of his accomplishments include representing Connecticut at the 1 st International Honors Choir of America for the Music Educators’ National Conference held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and writing a song titled “There’s One” which was featured on Walter Hawkins’s album titled “A New Dawning”. He also performed at the Inauguration of former President William Jefferson Clinton and at the funeral of the late Honorable Justice Thurgood Marshall. Kenneth played the role of the preacher in the musical “Mama, I want to Sing” and most recently recorded two Gospel albums titled “I Am My Brother’s Keeper” and The Golden Jubilee Album.”
Kenneth has served on several committees and community organizations including the Music, Worship and Fine Arts Conference of Churches and Choirs, the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship of Norwalk Camp; Vicinity, the Connecticut State Missionary Baptist Convention, and the New England Missionary Baptist Convention.
Kenneth has pastored churches in Virginia as well as her in Connecticut. In 2016 he was elevated to Jurisdictional Bishop within the Covenant Christian Church Alliance. Kenneth is an alumnus of Howard University and Piedmont Theological Seminary. Kenneth is the proud father of Kenneth Jr and Kenya with his wife Heather DuBose.