Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Father David Barrow –all these can be found in Westminster, London! But it’s Father David Barrow with us on Open Doors this Holy Thursday 2025. He is doing transformative work by incorporating Unbound into parish programs and ministry.
Some years back, Fr. David encountered a spiritual war zone which made him open to deliverance prayer. Trying to fight the devil had felt like “boxing in air,” but then a fellow priest told him about Unbound. He attended an Unbound priest retreat and learned about the Five Keys. “Unbound to me has meant a whole understanding of deliverance prayer that has had many implications for me personally but also for the way I do ministry.”
Recognizing deliverance was part of the early church, Fr. David integrated the Five Keys into his parish’s RCIA program (a formation course for those entering the Church). And what a difference it made! “The first effect we saw was that people were hungry for more. Sometimes we were there up to midnight because people didn’t want to go home. A lot of people found freedom from traumas they had suffered in their lives.”
RCIA became a lifegiving source for individuals but also formed a body of people that could animate the parish. Fr. David has written a short paper on how to include the Five Keys in an RCIA program. This paper is available here and soon to be on the Heart of the Father website.
Listen to the very end to hear how Fr. David associates the unusual name of his parish with Unbound!
Find two beautiful testimonies of those who went through RCIA with Fr. David Barrow below:
Testimony of Teresa Morgan here
Testimony of Catia Andrade here
Interested in other Unbound connections to the Sacraments?
Find Neal's article on Unbound and the Sacrament of Confession here
Find Fr. Boniface and Matt Lozanos podcast episode on Confession here
Questions? Email info@heartofthefather.com
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