Brian Keith Lucas was born in Washington DC on August 3, 1965 to Carse and Ruby Lucas. He spent much of his early childhood in Southeast DC, moving to Lanham Maryland when he was in the third grade. Brian accepted the Lord as his savior on a Tuesday night, in the month of February, 1978. Soon after, he joined the Open Door Baptist Church in Southeast Washington DC, pastored by the late Reverend Dr. Theodore our Harris. He, his brother Michael, and several friends were quite faithful to Open Door, attending Sunday School, worship service, and Bible study. Within a year, he became the Chairman of the Junior Deacon Board.
Brian graduated from Duval high school in 1983, And immediately entered into Washington Bible College. After four years at WBC, (now Lancaster Bible College), he entered into Capital Bible Seminary the graduate school of WBC, still needing 18 credits to complete his undergraduate degree. After two years at CBS, he was actually kicked out of Seminary because he was closer to a masters degree that he was to his Baccalaureate degree.
In 1989 he married Miss Tonya E Eldridge, and soon began a family. After becoming a father of five, (Ashley, John, James, Brian Junior, and Danielle), he enrolled in Liberty Baptist University and received his Bachelor of Science degree in the Bible. 18 years had a lapsed since entering W BC. He then received his first masters degree from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in 2009. That’s when he began working on his PhD degree from a small Bible school and Seminary in Daytona Florida. He earned his PhD in 2021 after 12 years. His educational journey was long, but he persevered until he completed it.
Brian preached his initial sermon on October 14,1980 at Open Door Baptist Church, as a15-year-old young man. He was licensed and ordained by the Open Door Baptist Church in 1980 and 1989 respectively. He became the pastor on an interim basis after the death of Dr. Harris in November 1989. In April 1990, he and his wife planted Christian fellowship missionary Baptist Church. Christian fellowship was not a successful church plantand he became affiliated with the community Baptist Church in Jessup Maryland, pastored by the late Dr. Robert T. Hurte. The Lucas family relocated from Jessup, Maryland to Greensboro, North Carolina in September 2007.
Once in Greensboro, the Lucas family united with The New Zion Missionary Baptist Church also in Greensboro. There he served as a Sunday school teacher, married couples leader, and as an Associate Pastor. After several years and his children having reached adulthood, he and Mrs. Lucas joined the new light missionary Baptist Church also in Greensboro, Pastored by Dr Cardes H. Brown , Jr.
In 2018, he joined the Persimmon Grove AME Church in Greensboro, North Carolina under capable leadership of the Rev. Dr. Deborah Lawson Smith. Upon entering the AME church, he was immediately advanced to the second year of BOE studies, allowing him to be elected an Itinerate Deacon. At the the 133rd Annual Conference of the Western North Carolina Conference, he was elected and ordained an Itinerate Elder. Brian has pastored the St. Steven AME Church in Mount Gilead and the Friendship AME Church in Ramseur, North Carolina. At the 133rd convening of the WNCC, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson appointed him to the Maxwell Chapel AME Church in Graham, North Carolina.
