Dr. James G. Barnett  along with Miss Bertha Fisher started Power In The Cross Ministries in 2003 after  coming back from a mission trip to Nigeria. Dr. Barnett is the President of Power In The Cross Ministries.

He holds a Ph.D in Psychology,  a degree in Theology and is an Ordained Minister from Jacksonville Theological Seminary. He has worked as Assistant to the Director of Jacksonville Theological  Seminary in north MS. in administration. Taught at the Christian Fellowship Institute, and is a past Vice- President of Agape International, a world missions organization.  Dr. Barnett  helped to to establish an outreach to Nigeria in 2002.

Dr. Barnett has  helped in fund raising for several start-up churches in the US,  So. Africa and Honduras. He has worked locally in street missions and evangelism, with children’s ministries, teaching ministries to mention a few. All this has helped to shape his love and desire to work with the un-churched and broken souls throughout the world.