Q&A with John & Francine Hunt

Q&A with JOHN & FRANCINE HUNT, our new ACCI Directors

Q: ACC has always been a mission-focused movement. Have you personally had a heart for missions and how have you been involved with missions in the past? JOHN: My first missions trip was to India in 1990 and I have since taken many trips over the last 30 years. I served both Pastor Jack Hanes and Pastor Alun Davis as regional leader and board member respectively. FRANCINE: The church I was a part of for the past 46 years has always been a missions church. I remember our church buying a four wheel drive for the Marlows in PNG about 40 years ago. We have sent many teams on short term missions trips over the years which I have been a part of. We had a team in Vietnam with the Hilton’s when COVID hit. Centro church has always supported missionaries and also sent missionaries to the field. Q: Alun & Joan Davies have left a great legacy of leadership of ACCI in the past 12 years. How do you intend to take it forward, especially in the Covid world before us? FRANCINE: We are incredibly blessed to have such great role models such as Pastor Alun and Joan. They have put things in place that we can run on with. I have a heart to encourage, support and develop relationships with our field workers, particularly our women. Zoom is a wonderful thing in this COVID season. JOHN: It’s wonderful to build on such a strong foundation. During COVID, we will build on relationships and strengthen process and asses what our asset and opportunities are, once travel is readily available we want to be positioned to release my more young Aussie’s on the nations. Q: Has it been a big transition to go from senior pastors of a local church to head of ACCI? How has God equipped you for this change of leadership roles? JOHN: Our times are in His hands. When it’s His time, He positions the people, the heart, and the opportunities. We have sensed His hand all the way through. FRANCINE: You know when God is calling you on, it’s exciting. I decided to journal in the transition, and what God was saying to me. I called it ‘The Transit Lounge’. When you’re in the airport, in transit, you sit and wait, you read, you think. You can learn so much in transition, going from one place to another. Q: What is the most exciting part about leading ACCI for you and what are you passionate about seeing? JOHN: I think our whole movement knows that it is the custodian of something great and that we have the privilege of giving what we have been given to the nations. It is exciting to be at the forefront of that. FRANCINE: It’s exciting that we get to connect with those serving Jesus in our ACC movement across the nation and those serving around the world. A real privilege.

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