After a two year hiatus, the Reverend Mark Gallagher is returning to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of McMinnville on May 20, 2018, to preach to us on dealing creatively with life’s unpredictability.

Even though we make plans (and it does make a difference to plan), life is ultimately unpredictable. Dealing creatively with the unanticipated is the art of improvisation. Unlike other art forms, improvisation is mandatory for human beings. The only choice is whether we will do it well or poorly.

The Reverend Mark Gallagher grew up in Chicago. He attended the Starr King School for Ministry in Berkeley, California.  As minister, he has served Unitarian Universalist congregations in California, Nevada, and Washington, including twenty-one years at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver  in Vancouver, Washington. He retired from the Vancouver church in 2015, but still lives in Vancouver with his wife, Jennifer, and carries on a free-lance ministry of teaching and preaching.