InterviewBlog | Interview: Anne Dunn a vulnerable preacher
Interview: Anne Dunn a vulnerable preacher
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 25.06.18
LL Can you tell us something of your Methodist heritage?
There have been preachers in my family since the Primitive Methodist revival! My great grandmother Daisy Freelove became (probably) the first fully-accredited female Local Preacher in 1925. Today, my father and mother (David and Elizabeth Dunn-Wilson) and my brother (Mark Dunn-Wilson) all serve as Methodist ministers, and are all fine preachers.
LL Did you think that you’d become a preacher too?
No! It was a great surprise, I thought that other people would do that. However, it helps that I was a secondary school teacher. Now, as a minister, I love all aspects of the role but in my heart I know that I am made to preach. That’s because I live out of the overflow of my relationship with the Lord and he is always wanting to say something.
LL That would be the same whether you were a Methodist or a Baptist, so why did you become a Baptist minister?
When I felt God call me, I was at a Baptist church in Totnes and so I went through the process from that point and was accepted by Bristol Baptist College as a congregational placement. I asked for a church that couldn’t afford a minister (as part of my husband’s giving) and in 2013 we came to Stonehouse. The mainstream baptistic theology is at the core of most free and evangelical churches. I do believe in the denominational church, there is richness in every stream and I celebrate the stream I’m in.
