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WHO ARE WE?
We worked together for 20 years with Maurice’s father Bill Barratt, an evangelist with an international healing ministry in the 1950s and 1960s. Maurice was formerly an international gymnast, and apart from preaching and teaching he is also a bass guitarist & recording engineer/producer (recording and producing all of Joanna’s albums). Joanna was a professional session singer, used on Christian albums and radio and TV jingles, but now concentrate solely on singing songs which will encourage, uplift, teach scripture, or just transport the listener to a place of worship.
We are based in Manchester, England, and offer teaching on discipleship shedding light on the way to live our lives to be holy and acceptable to God.
Maurice and Joanna publish Christian teaching with a radical and uncompromising edge using different media, including YouTube. Rumble and VIMEO channels, books and music, as well as a Facebook page to minister to the body of Christ all over the world. Recognising that many parts of the world lack finance to obtaining resources that will provide much needed teaching, we are committed to publishing and printing all our products at minimum cost and all original material is non-copyright.
We invite those living in third world countries to contact us to receive PDFs free of charge
We worked together for 20 years with Maurice’s father Bill Barratt, an evangelist with an international healing ministry in the 1950s and 1960s. Maurice was formerly an international gymnast, and apart from preaching and teaching he is also a bass guitarist & recording engineer/producer (recording and producing all of Joanna’s albums). Joanna was a professional session singer, used on Christian albums and radio and TV jingles, but now concentrate solely on singing songs which will encourage, uplift, teach scripture, or just transport the listener to a place of worship.
We are based in Manchester, England, and offer teaching on discipleship shedding light on the way to live our lives to be holy and acceptable to God.
Maurice and Joanna publish Christian teaching with a radical and uncompromising edge using different media, including YouTube. Rumble and VIMEO channels, books and music, as well as a Facebook page to minister to the body of Christ all over the world. Recognising that many parts of the world lack finance to obtaining resources that will provide much needed teaching, we are committed to publishing and printing all our products at minimum cost and all original material is non-copyright.
We invite those living in third world countries to contact us to receive PDFs free of charge
WHAT WE DO
Sermon On The Mount
The centre of our message is the principles of practical discipleship and Christian lifestyle taught by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. We believe that these fundamentals have been seriously compromised in today’s church. Self-denial seems to have become a thing of the past; self-centredness, self-love, self-righteousness, blessing-seeking and sensationalism seem to have replaced it.
A different spirit is abroad in the church - and it’s the wrong spirit. It doesn’t line up with the teaching of Jesus in the beatitudes or the gospel of the kingdom. Something’s got corrupted, and as a result of one-sided teaching and misguided leadership, many Believers today find themselves ill-equipped to cope with the trials of their faith.
Barratt Ministries is committed to redressing the balance, firstly by challenging Believers to bring back real Christianity to our needy country, and secondly by providing help in the form of solid, practical, foundational teaching based firmly on the Bible.
Teaching
Since 1986 Maurice and Joanna have taken the message of the Sermon on the Mount to churches throughout the UK and abroad. Their practical and discerning teaching has earned them a keen and appreciative following. They have ministered throughout the denominational spectrum, in Great Britain, the USA, India, Barbados, Malta, the Canary Islands, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Poland, to name but a few.
Not Just In Church ...
Maurice and Joanna have also had a wide experience of prison ministry in the UK, and devoted some of their touring itineraries to prison work. They were also regular guests at Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship meetings, and Joanna has spoken at Women’s Aglow and other women’s conferences at home and abroad. Joanna has also taken her singing ministry out onto the streets of Manchester’s busy city centre, giving people an opportunity to hear the message of the gospel in a way that they can relate.
Sermon On The Mount
The centre of our message is the principles of practical discipleship and Christian lifestyle taught by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. We believe that these fundamentals have been seriously compromised in today’s church. Self-denial seems to have become a thing of the past; self-centredness, self-love, self-righteousness, blessing-seeking and sensationalism seem to have replaced it.
A different spirit is abroad in the church - and it’s the wrong spirit. It doesn’t line up with the teaching of Jesus in the beatitudes or the gospel of the kingdom. Something’s got corrupted, and as a result of one-sided teaching and misguided leadership, many Believers today find themselves ill-equipped to cope with the trials of their faith.
Barratt Ministries is committed to redressing the balance, firstly by challenging Believers to bring back real Christianity to our needy country, and secondly by providing help in the form of solid, practical, foundational teaching based firmly on the Bible.
Teaching
Since 1986 Maurice and Joanna have taken the message of the Sermon on the Mount to churches throughout the UK and abroad. Their practical and discerning teaching has earned them a keen and appreciative following. They have ministered throughout the denominational spectrum, in Great Britain, the USA, India, Barbados, Malta, the Canary Islands, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Poland, to name but a few.
Not Just In Church ...
Maurice and Joanna have also had a wide experience of prison ministry in the UK, and devoted some of their touring itineraries to prison work. They were also regular guests at Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship meetings, and Joanna has spoken at Women’s Aglow and other women’s conferences at home and abroad. Joanna has also taken her singing ministry out onto the streets of Manchester’s busy city centre, giving people an opportunity to hear the message of the gospel in a way that they can relate.
WHY WE DO IT
We want to demonstrate clearly that our God is worth serving, whatever the cost!
We are in ministry to serve; we are not in business to make profit. For this reason our materials are kept to as low a price as possible. There is no copyright on any of our publications, whether they be CDs or books. You may freely copy our material, and we are very happy for you to do so. We want to share our message in every way we can, and with this principle we do not feel that copyright is an option in ministry.
This is not a day for Believers to compromise. We want to set an example by our lifestyle and actions, as well as by our words and teachings.
We strongly believe that the coming of our Lord draws near. The question is: will he find faith on the earth? According to James, faith is not believing, but acting upon one’s beliefs. We are committed to spreading, and elaborating on, the radical teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in order to challenge the real Believers to stand up, be counted, and shine with the light of Christ in this dark age.
If we can prove by our lifestyle that our God is worth serving despite the circumstances then that is a life well spent.
We want to demonstrate clearly that our God is worth serving, whatever the cost!
We are in ministry to serve; we are not in business to make profit. For this reason our materials are kept to as low a price as possible. There is no copyright on any of our publications, whether they be CDs or books. You may freely copy our material, and we are very happy for you to do so. We want to share our message in every way we can, and with this principle we do not feel that copyright is an option in ministry.
This is not a day for Believers to compromise. We want to set an example by our lifestyle and actions, as well as by our words and teachings.
We strongly believe that the coming of our Lord draws near. The question is: will he find faith on the earth? According to James, faith is not believing, but acting upon one’s beliefs. We are committed to spreading, and elaborating on, the radical teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in order to challenge the real Believers to stand up, be counted, and shine with the light of Christ in this dark age.
If we can prove by our lifestyle that our God is worth serving despite the circumstances then that is a life well spent.