Brian Orahood
Lead Minister

Brian is from the small town of Andover, Ohio. His parents, Mary Jo and Ronald, took him to the Andover Christian Church every Sunday from the day he was born. Brian became a follower of Jesus Christ on his eleventh birthday when he made a confession of faith and was immersed.

On February 10, 1979, Brian was involved in a life-changing motor vehicle accident and spent over three months in the hospital. After the accident, Brian spent the next year recuperating and reassessing the direction of his life. He decided to pursue the possibility of becoming a preacher, so he enrolled in the Cincinnati Christian University. (The rest is history, so to speak.) He graduated and was ordained in 1985.

He was invited by a family friend to be the youth minister at the Edgewood Christian Church in Roanoke, VA—but preaching and evangelism were his true calling. In 1988, the Cherry Avenue Christian Church in Charlottesville, VA helped him realize that calling when they asked him to serve as their minister of evangelism. At that same time, he helped start the Virginia Vision Project—a group committed to planting ten new churches by the year 2000. It was that group that called him to plant the first of those ten churches—so on September 16, 1990—Stafford County Christian Church was born.

Brian was ready to go "home" to Central Virginia, so he was thrilled to accept another call from the Cherry Avenue Christian Church. This time, it was to help them realize their vision of planting a new church in Fluvanna County. On November 7, 1999, Lake Christian Church was born.

If you have any questions about the ministry here at LCC, you can call the church office at or email me at

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Chris Long
Youth Minister

My name is Chris Long and I am the youth minister here at Lake Christian Church. I grew up in Orange, VA, so I guess you could say that I am somewhat of a local. I spent my entire life playing sports and continued that throughout high school. I became a Christian in my sophomore year of high school and had plans to go play baseball in college but God had different plans. I decided to forget about baseball and go to Bible College. I thought that being a minister would be easy because they only work one day a week, right? Boy was I in for a rude awakening. I went to Roanoke Bible College, which is in Elizabeth City, NC, about fifty minutes from Virginia Beach and forty-five minutes from Nags Head. It is a small college of about two hundred students.

I have a wonderful wife, whose name is Courtney. I also have two sons. We enjoy doing all kinds of crazy things together. My entire family is involved in the ministry here at LCC which makes my job fun and challenging. Youth ministry is something that is always changing, so to be involved in the youth ministry, you have to be willing to change just as fast as the students do. I want our youth ministry to be more than something that is just fun and a place to hang out. We want our students to be able to come into a relationship with Jesus that is fun, dynamic, and also that is very REAL.

Our youth ministry follows the same vision as the rest of the Church: Love God, Love Others, Serve the World.

If you have any questions about the youth ministry here at LCC, feel free to email me at