Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd & Rev. Chad Kidd have been our co-pastors since 2016.
In 2025, our church expanded our ministry team to include Rev. Christopher Vazquez, our Chaplain for Community Outreach & Engagement.
Rev. Anna
Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd called Jackson, TN, home for her formative years, and moved to Nashville for college where she studied Psychology and Spanish. After meeting Chad and marrying in 2001, they moved to Boston where she attended the Boston University School of Theology and earned her Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees. After seminary she was ordained in the United Church of Christ and worked in the School of Theology’s Admissions Office for 17 years, supporting prospective students who were discerning their own callings to ministry. Whether in that role or in local church leadership, she considers herself foremost a pastoral counselor, loving one-on-one deep conversations more than almost anything else in the world. Her calling is to help folks figure out where their callings are – to quote Frederick Buechner – where one’s deep gladness & the world’s deep hunger meet. Anastasia transitioned away from her admissions work in 2021 and now serves as Director of Contextual Education and a faculty lecturer at the Boston University School of Theology. Anastasia’s book Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation was published by Pilgrim Press, and is available wherever books are sold. Find her on social media @FatChurch.
Rev. Chad
Rev. Chad William Kidd (pictured here with Henry) grew up in Richmond, Virginia. Music was his first avenue into the church and it has opened many doors to the sacred for him! Chad studied church music at Belmont University in Nashville, TN (where he and Anastasia met!), and, feeling a call into ministry, progressed to a dual Master’s program at Boston University School of Theology. He received his Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Music in 2005. Rev. Chad was ordained in the United Church of Christ in 2007. In his full-time job he is the Pastoral Ministries Manager at Brooksby Village in Peabody, MA – a large retirement community of about 1800 residents. He oversees a pastoral staff and together they support ministry endeavors for all the residents. Rev. Chad also serves as the Worship Coordinator and Director of the Seminary Singers choir at Boston University School of Theology, and since 2001 has served as the Minister of Music at First Congregational Church, UCC, in Reading, MA.
Rev. Chris
Rev. Chris has 35 years’ experience in the design/ build industry. He is a talented craftsman and designer who specialized in mill work and built-in cabinetry. He was trained at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School’s wood design and artisan program. He apprenticed through the Boston carpenters union. Semi-retired as a carpenter, Chris was ordained as an interfaith chaplain in 2022 through the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine. Chris studies voice and performs at church services and special events.
He is married to Rev. Katherine “Kat” Black, who is also ordained as an interfaith chaplain, and is a certified practitioner of Biofield Tuning. Rev. Kat offers sound bath meditations in our congregation and around the Outer Cape. Rev. Chris and Rev. Kat served as co-pastors of Truro’s Christian Union Church before Rev. Chris joined us at First Parish Truro as our Community Chaplain for Outreach and Engagement in 2025.