Our Team
David Washer
Associate Pastor of Administration and Missions
Washer joined the staff of Lane Prairie Baptist Church in October of 2022. He has been married to Kristin since 2002 and they have two children. He served 8 years in the United States Marine Corps before earning a Bachelor’s Degree and a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Washer was a Youth Minister for 12 years before his family served as missionaries for 6 years with the International Mission Board in Madagascar.
Dawton Marques
Worship Minister
Dawton came from Brazil and began serving as Interim Minister of Worship in January 2021, and he became the Minister of Worship of Lane Prairie in November 2021. Dawton has a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been married to his lovely wife Camila since June 2010, and has two energetic and beautiful daughters, Esther and Olivia, and a wonderful baby son, Thomas. He has served in leading worship as a volunteer since around 2007. Dawton likes sci-fi, Star Wars, and video games, as well as playing and singing, watching cartoons with his children, and going out for food with his wife.
Aaron Christiansen
Student Minister
Aaron joined the staff of Lane Prairie in August of 2022. He has a Master of Arts in Youth Ministry from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Aaron married Emily in 2010 and they have one child name Karis. Aaron is passionate about connecting the next generation with the Gospel through the church. The goal of his ministry is to make disciples and equip them to make disciples and together to change the world.
Jordan Harmon
Children's Pastor
Jordan joined the staff in January of 2025. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Georgia College and State University in Spanish and is currently enrolled in a Master’s of Divinity program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Tiffany, have been married since October of 2018. They have a daughter, Adalynn, and a son, Thaddeus. Jordan was a student pastor at First Baptist Church of Eagle Lake, Florida for four and a half years before following the call to go to seminary. He has a heart for teaching and working with children and their families.
Our Beliefs & Values
Lane Prairie Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church which is affiliated with Southern Baptists on multiple levels. Nationally, we are associated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Within the state of Texas we are affiliated with the Southern Baptist of Texas Convention. It is through these associations that Lane Prairie Baptist can remain a local autonomous church and still have great gospel impact in our community and around the world.
The Baptist Faith and Message is a prepared statement of generally held convictions that serves as a guide to understanding who we are. The topics below provide only a brief, partial summary.
The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is 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.
God
There is one, and only one, living and true God. 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. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
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. 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.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. He exalts Christ. He convicts of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Man
Man was created by the special act of God, in His own image, and is the crowning work of His creation. By his free choice, man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. 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 Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense, salvation includes regeneration, sanctification, and glorification.
God’s Purpose of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. 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.
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 and seek to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. This church is an autonomous body. The New Testament speaks also of the church as the body of Christ, which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages.
Baptism & the Lord’s Supper
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water. 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 life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.
The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
The Lord’s Day
The first day of the week is the Lord’s Day. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion.
Last Things
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly and the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell. The righteous will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Evangelism & Missions
It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by personal effort.
Education
The cause of education in the Kingdom of Christ is coordinated with the causes of missions and general benevolence. There should be a proper balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility. The freedom of a teacher in a Christian school, college, or seminary is limited by the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ, by the authoritative nature of the Scriptures, and by the distinct purpose for which the school exists.
Stewardship
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians have a spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy trusteeship in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions. They are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their time, talents, and material possessions.
Cooperation
Christ’s people should organize such associations and conventions as may best secure cooperation for the great objects of the Kingdom of God. Such organizations have no authority over one another or over the churches. Cooperation is desirable between the various Christian denominations.
The Christian & the Social Order
Every Christian is under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in his own life and in human society. The Christian should oppose in the spirit of Christ every form of greed, selfishness, and vice.
Religious Liberty
Church and state should be separate. The state owes to every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends. A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal.
Family
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. Marriage is the unity of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. The husband and wife are of equal worth before God since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord.