Pete Dunn retires from Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Uriah

BETHLEHEM ASSOCIATION

Pete Dunn said one thing that amazed him throughout his years in ministry was the “total adventure of seeing God doing things and joining in on what He was doing.”

Dunn — a longtime missionary, pastor and professor — said he “fell in love with Jesus” while he served over the years. He and his late wife, Pat, served 33 years with the International Mission Board in the Middle East before retiring from overseas missionary work.

And Dunn continued to serve. After returning to the U.S., he became pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Uriah — his only U.S. church to lead — and stayed there 18 years, until his recent retirement.

“They taught me what the love of the local church should be,” he said.

Before going to the missions field, Dunn earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Auburn University and worked for NASA. He studied at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, finished his master’s degree at Wheaton College and earned his doctorate from Luther Rice Seminary.

Over the years while in the U.S., he also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Mobile and as a missionary in residence for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.