About us

Lake Ridge Baptist Church is a Christ-centered, Bible-believing neighborhood church. Our vision is to welcome in all who come, build each person up as a faithful follower of Jesus  Christ, and prepare them to reach out with the love of God to those who’ve never experienced it before…

…Located in Woodbridge, Virginia at the corner of Clipper Drive and Mariner Lane, we stand at the intersection of several distinct communities including the Thousand Oaks Townhomes, Rockledge Elementary School, and the River Ridge and Westminster at Lake Ridge communities for senior adults. Ours is a multi-generational community including young families, working adults, and retired persons.

OUR VISION

Built on 3 Pillars

Lake Ridge Baptist Church is a Lighthouse for Christ at the corner of Clipper and Mariner.

  • The members of the Community of Faith are living the Great Commandment and fulfilling the Great Commission as true disciples of our Lord and Savior.
  • Without compromising the Truth inherent in God’s Holy Word, we present His Grace through our words and deeds.
  • Our worship exalts Him, our ministry glorifies Him and our outreach prepare others to meet Him.
  • Most of all, our faith is demonstrated through an unrelenting comitment to prayer driven by a fervent hunger to see His will done.
Pillar Diagram

Be a Lighthouse

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your  Father who is in heaven.

Be a Lighthouse

Matthew 5: 16 (ESV)

WELCOMING IN

We are a living vibrant Community of Faith, renowned for our devoted love for God, for each other and for our neighbors.

BUILDING UP

We are a Community of Faith in which each person is continuously growing in Christ.

REACHING OUT

We are a Community of Faith in which every disciple is compelled by their love of Christ to share the Good News indiscriminately.

GROUNDED ON OUR BELIEFS

The Scriptures

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is the record of God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.

The Triune God

There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. To him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all loving, and all wise.

Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself the demands and necessities of human nature and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, partaking of the nature of God and of man, and in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior, and effects regeneration. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption.

Last Things

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in heaven with the Lord.

Man

Man was created by the special act of God, in His own image, and is the crowning work of His creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence; whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin, and as soon as they are capable of moral action become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every man possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Salvation

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man and comprehends all the means in connection with the end. It is a glorious display of God’s sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility.

All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end. Believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, bring reproach on the cause of Christ, and temporal judgments on themselves, yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

The Church

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local body of baptized believers who are associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, committed to His teachings, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. This church is an autonomous body, operating through democratic processes under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. In such a congregation, members are equally responsible. Its Scriptural officers are pastors and deacons.

It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations. The new birth of man’s spirit by God’s Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Missionary effort on the part of all rests thus upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is expressly and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Christ. It is the duty of every child of God to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by personal effort and by all other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.

The Ordinances

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Being a church ordinance, it is prerequisite to the privileges of church membership.

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

The Family

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel for sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race.

Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.

OUR MINISTRY STAFF

Brian Burdett

Brian Burdett

LEAD PASTOR

Brian Burdett is a former software engineer blown away by the grace of God, in love with Jesus Christ, and passionate about the Word of God. He loves talking about, teaching, and preaching the Bible.

Brian was ordained into the ministry in 2015, and holds a Master of Divinity degree at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Neil Newcomb

Neil Newcomb

ASSOCIATE PASTOR

Neil Newcomb has been a member of the Lake Ridge Baptist Church staff since September 1999 when he was hired to be the Minister of Education and Outreach. For more than 17 years, his job responsibilities have expanded to include preaching in Sunday worship service, church administration, as well as overseeing our Senior Adult Ministry and Property and Grounds.

Before his time at LRBC, Neil was a Baptist missionary at International Baptist Church of Stuttgart, Germany for 6 years. Neil received his Master’s Degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Pastor Dan Rodriguez

Dan Rodriguez

Family Life & Care Pastor

Dan Rodriguez has served as a bi-vocational pastor since 1995. Following his retirement as a government employee, Dan became a full-time pastor at Lake Ridge Baptist Church. With numerous studies, degrees, and certifications in Biblical Counseling he continues to biblically counsel and disciple couples, families, missionaries, military, and law enforcement personnel using the Bible as his primary foundation. His passion for working with children and youth led him as a volunteer to start a ministry to the young through a karate club for the community. He has served at LRBC as a volunteer in children’s ministry, Hispanic ministry, counseling ministry and more.

Stephen Carter-Hicks

Stephen Carter-Hicks

Worship & Music Pastor

Stephen has come full circle…having grown up at Lake Ridge Baptist singing in the choir, he has returned home from a long and exciting career in music. He brings a passion for praising the Lord through music!

As a singer and worship leader, and choir director, he truly believes Psalms 100 – “Make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.”

George Wilson

George Wilson

Associate Worship Pastor

George is a retired federal police officer of 34 years that included 10 years in the U.S. Air Force, 2 years with Federal Protective Service, and 22 years with the United States Mint Police in Washington, DC. George is married with 3 adult children. He has been playing guitar for over 30 years and loves playing, singing, and leading worship. He loves using his gift of music to glorify God.