Trustees

Carol Wert

Carol was born into an Anabaptist family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and moved to Wales with her husband in 1999. Since then, they have been marketplace workers with Eastern Mennonite Missions, living for more than 17 years in a former coal mining village near Pontypridd and more recently in Cardiff. Carol loves equipping the body of Christ and also teaches ESOL to asylum seekers and immigrants. She was the first student to receive her MTh through the Centre for Anabaptist Studies, Bristol, and did it because she wanted to learn more about her spiritual heritage. She has 3 young adult children and enjoys reading, travelling, meeting friends for tea and walks, and coming up with creative ideas for her husband to build.

Dumisani Ncube

Dumi was born into a Brethren In Christ Church (BICC) family and has remained with the church ever since. The BICC is anabaptist by nature and origin, so Dumi was exposed to anabaptism from a very young age. While the term ‘anabaptism’ was and is still rarely mentioned in the BICC, the values of anabaptism continue to be taught up to this day. As part of this living experience Dumi has embraced core anabaptist convictions such as discipleship, sharing generously, promoting justice and following of Jesus as our example, teacher and redeemer. He is an active member of the BICC in the UK, a trustee for the local church he goes to, and a member of the National Executive Board in the UK. Being an AMN trustee is exposing Dumi to a more diverse group of Anabaptists, beyond those of African origin in the BICC, from which he is hoping to learn more about anabaptism and contribute towards the expansion of anabaptism to the wider UK community.

Karen Stallard

Karen is a registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and runs a private practice called Feeling Found based in London. Karen is a pastoral supervisor for the Moravian Church, a lead trainer and supervisor for Trauma Informed Schools UK and Director of the Counselling Skills Certificate Course at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. Karen is also co-chair for the bi-annual conference ‘Continuing the Journey’, which provides CPD training to therapists and spiritual leaders.

Karen’s career began as an actor with a passion for the performing arts and communicating creatively. She then trained to be a Baptist minister which led her to join the church planting organisation Urban Expression. She was chair of Crossroads Counselling Service in Tower Hamlets for a number of years and a spiritual and cultural care coordinator at the East London and City Mental Health Trust for seven years. She then went on to work as a Congregational Minister at Union Chapel, Islington where she was a trustee for both the Union Chapel Project and Margins homeless project. Karen was a part of the Anabaptist Network steering group for many years and Anabaptism has been the theological framework which continues to influence her work today.

Karen is married to Sharon and they enjoy living in the heart of London. Favourite things they enjoy doing are eating out, theatre trips, pottery classes, making art, making beer and travelling. 

Paul Rothwell

Paul is a recently retired Civil Servant who is married to Kara and they have 2 adult children. His career was in Human Resource Management and Learning & Development. He has been involved in Church leadership since the 1980s, (when he first encountered Anabaptism), and currently serves as a Senior Leader in Trinity Church, Dublin. Paul is also a trustee of Jobcare (Dublin) and has ongoing leadership involvement in initiatives among indigenous people in the Western High Atlas Mountains, North Africa. He has recently taken up woodturning as a hobby. Rock-climbing is his preferred sport. He also enjoys cycling and swimming. 

Phil Warburton

Phil is a Baptist Minister and Community Organiser who has lived and worked in Tower Hamlets in the East End of London for 25 years. He is married to Sarah who together have 3 adult children. Phil and a small team planted a church later called E1 Community Church in partnership with Urban Expression, but currently works for Citizens UK as a Community Organiser and Chairs the Trustees of Urban Expression. He has had an interest in how faith and being part of a faith community impact wellbeing and mental health and helped to lead a small church led mental health group for several years. He regularly visits the local mental health unit as part of a multi-faith Spiritual and Cultural Care team.

His favourite theologian is Stanley Hauerwas, his favourite footballer Paul Scholes and his favourite food is Curry. He believes Joy is a verb: Dancing, singing, eating good food with friends, competitive sport, winning justice together and learning with others what joy looks like.

Sian Murray Williams

Sian has a Welsh Baptist heritage and began to ask questions of how her teenage evangelical faith might be outworked in the cause of peace and justice. An avid attender of the Greenbelt Festival of the 1970’s and 1980’s, she found others asking the same questions, broadly gathering around the phrase ‘radical discipleship.’ She found a sense of ‘coming home’ to the Anabaptist tradition through the friendship of Alan and Eleanor Kreider, among others. In short, she has worked for the Baptist World Alliance, the Baptist Missionary Society, been a local church minister, a college tutor and a carer. A nine year journey with an intentional table fellowship in Oxford modelled the importance of relationship, open conversation, prayer, hospitality and food in building community and faith. She is married, involved in spiritual direction, pastoral supervision and mentoring, and is looking forward to a new adventure in faith in London.