Brian Donovan will lead the service at the Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Sept. 1, the last service for the 2019 season. Alan Wingard will serve as organist. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are most welcome.

Brian is the volunteer chaplain for St. Andrews Gregory Wing and a recent graduate from Boston University School of Theology. Although he is currently preparing for ordination (Member in Discernment-MID) through the Midcoast Maine Association of the UCC, Brian has served an interdenominational church (the Union Church in Waban) for two years as the pastoral intern. He also served as the sole pastor for two United Methodist congregations (Broad Cove and the Waldoboro Methodist Church) for two months in the summer of 2018. Brian’s master’s in divinity degree was focused on pastoral ministry, with a strong leaning into conflict transformation, interfaith, and small/alternative church ministries. He is a member of the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor and the first MID from said congregation.

In 2014 Brian graduated from the University of Maine, Augusta, with a bachelor of arts in English degree focused on creative writing. During those undergraduate years, Brian had some minor publications of poetry and short stories and also a graphic memoir in the UMA Scholar. He has also been published in the Boothbay Register with a piece titled “Coming Home.” Brian continues to utilize creative writing within his ministry.

Brian has lived in Massachusetts, Michigan and Pennsylvania. However, his home is here in Maine, where he has family ties to both Wiscasset and Boothbay. Currently, Brian resides in East Boothbay with his mother, Penny Donovan, and their two dogs, Rocky and Pepe. Brian has one son, Nathaniel, who lives in Michigan.