Dr. A. Craig Barnett serves as the Young Adult Minister and Youth Christian Education Director for The Windsor Village Church Family. He is also an adjunct U.S. history professor and social studies teacher at Jones Futures Academy in Houston ISD. Barnett is an Ordained Minister of the Gospel through both the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. and the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship since 1993 and has held several positions within both bodies. He also served as the regional and national director for youth evangelism for the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship.
Minister Dr. Barnett has led evangelistic outreaches in several major cities in the U.S., Namibia, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. He served as the youth pastor and the children’s pastor of Valley Kingdom Ministries International for 11 years. He has led youth leadership training and development workshops and seminars throughout North America, Africa, and the U.K. for Valley Kingdom Ministries International. Additionally, he helped to create and implement the teacher's training course and ministers training course curriculum to train and equip the ministerial and teaching staff of Valley Kingdom Ministries International.
In 2004, Minister Dr. Barnett was appointed senior pastor of Valley of the Son Kingdom Ministries in Phoenix, Arizona and served for three years as a church plant pastor. During this time, he also worked as a community liaison with the Maricopa County Corrections Department where he preached to the youth in prison.
Minister Dr. Barnett and his wife of 28 years, Donna Barnett, are natives of Chicago, Illinois and are proud now to reside in Houston, Texas. They are directors of A. Craig Barnett Ministries, a multifaceted outreach ministry.
Minister Dr. Barnett is a graduate of Southern University A&M College, Grand Canyon University, and The University of Phoenix with B.A. degrees in Sociology and Christian Leadership and Management, respectively. He also holds a Master of Arts in Secondary Education. He lives by the Scripture Acts 10:38, which tells how God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and He went about doing good, healing all of those oppressed of the devil because God was with Him.