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Lou Baldwin is founder and pastor of the Crossroads Baptist Church in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia.
A successful businessman who relocated to the Washington, DC area from his native Tallahassee, FL, Lou Baldwin trusted Christ as Savior on July 22, 1976.
In 1978, he felt the call of God to preach, and entered the Fairfax Baptist Temple Missions Academy to prepare for the ministry. Upon graduation in 1981, his family was commissioned to Washington, DC to plant the Northwest Baptist Temple, an independent, fundamental Baptist church. Twenty months later, the church relocated to suburban Northern Virginia and was renamed "Crossroads Baptist Church."
In 1993, the Doctor of Divinity degree was conferred upon Pastor Baldwin by the Atlantic Baptist Bible College. In 1996, he was honored with a Doctorate of Laws degree from Bob Jones University.
His personal burden resulted in the inception of the Conference on Evangelizing Black America (COEBA) in 1994. As founder of this movement, he pilots an international effort to plant fundamental Baptist churches in the black community.
He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Baptist International Missions, Inc. (BIMI), and on the Executive Board of Atlantic Baptist Bible College. He is a board member of the Bailey's Crossroads Revitalization Committee in Fairfax County, VA. Dr. Baldwin has preached in various national meetings including the Southwide Baptist Fellowship, the Baptist Bible Fellowship International, and the Bible Conference at Bob Jones University.
Crossroads Baptist Church is a congregation of about five hundred. The church occupies a beautiful twenty-thousand square foot facility in Northern Virginia. Crossroads is a missions-hearted ministry, supporting nearly two hundred missionary families and projects around the world.
Dr. Baldwin's heart for church planting has taken him throughout North and Central America, Europe and the Caribbean. Under his leadership and example more than 300 men and boys have surrendered to preach and twenty churches have been established. These churches along with Crossroads collectively give more than one million dollars annually for world missions. He and his wife, Jeanette, have two sons (Michael and Kenny), who serve on Dr. Baldwin's ministerial staff. His daughter (Dee Dee) is a teacher in the church's Christian Academy. His son-in-law (Lou), two daughters-in-law (Lora and Bethany) and five grandchildren (Cameron, Casey, Kylen, Kevin and Kenneth) are all very active in the ministry as well. The Baldwins reside in Annandale, Virginia. |