Dr. Marshall Elijah Hatch
Marshall Elijah Hatch, Sr.’s ministry spans over forty years, he has served as Senior Pastor of the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church since 1993. Pastor Hatch is the son of late-Pastor Elijah J. Hatch, who pastored Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church for forty-two years.
Education and Professional
In 1985, he was ordained as a minister, and later in that same year was appointed as Pastor of the Commonwealth Missionary Baptist Church in North Lawndale. In 1998 he was appointed a Merrill Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This honor was shared with three other distinguished scholars in the practice of ministry in the spring of 1999. In August 2000, Marshall Hatch was appointed an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. In November of 2006, he was awarded the Weston Howland Jr. Grant and Award for Civic Leadership from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In January 2007, he received the MLK Award and served as Bates College Martin Luther King Jr. Day guest speaker in Lewiston, Maine. In 2009, he was appointed and currently serves as Professor of Urban Ministry at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois.
Rev. Dr. Hatch has earned both a doctorate and a master’s degree in ministry and theological studies from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He also holds a master’s degree in government from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and a bachelor degree in political science and history from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois.
Marshall Elijah Hatch, Sr. has been the Pastor of the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church located in the heart of Chicago’s West Garfield community since 1993. Born March 11, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois. Marshall Hatch is a native of the west side. His spiritual development began in Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church under the pastorate of his father, the late Reverend Elijah Hatch.
Black Church Studies
What is the Black church? What role has it played in the culture and liberation of Black Americans throughout US history?
Rev. Dr. Marshall Hatch takes viewers on a journey through the history and impact of the Black church in America, from the religion of white slaveholders passed to enslaved peoples to the role of the church today in the era of Black Lives Matter. He teaches on the Civil War, Reconstruction, the development of Black denominations due to segregation, prominent Black church leaders and theologians, the Civil Rights era, and the new time of racial reckoning in America today.
The Black church has guided culture, provided hope in hard times, and been the motivating and organizing force behind pushes for the rights of Black Americans. While church attendance is decreasing, Hatch contends that the Black church still has an important role to play in American life.
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Community Development
Throughout his ministry, Marshall Hatch has commenced numerous community outreach programs. Most notable among these are the Westside Isaiah Plan, Ezra Homes, and Pilgrim Village Homes-Washington Boulevard, new construction affordable housing development projects that built over 200 single family homes in Chicago. In 2009, Hatch established “Passports to The World”, a biennial overseas African mission trip for the church’s inner city youth. He has also launched a visitation and correspondence ministry for the incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections and Cook County Jail, “The Call To Life” Substance Abuse Support Ministry, the Safe Haven CPS after school program, and the Pilgrim Development Corporation of Pilgrim Village in West Garfield Park.
Currently, New Mount Pilgrim Church-Chicago and Pilgrim Development Corporation partners with Chicago Cred and several corporate donors to employ and enrich at-risk young adults (18-23 years old) in community development programs called The MAAFA Redemption Project and The Beautiful Seed Project for Young Women of Color. In 2023, the New Mount Pilgrim Church-Chicago, MAAFA Redemption Project and West Garfield Park Collaborative, secured the $10 million Pritzker-Traubert Foundation Chicago Prize grant to help fund the Sankofa Wellness Village Project. This project encompasses a $50 million federally qualified health and community center development and is designed to catalyze the renaissance of the West Madison Street commercial corridor.
Dr. Hatch has a history of civic involvement spanning over two decades. He served as a member of the Chicago School Board Nominating Commission from 1989-1991. He served as the Moderator of the Friendship Baptist District Association, the National Director of Religious Affairs of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and on the boards of the Academy of Communication and Technology (ACT) Charter School and Christ The King Jesuit College Prep High School. He is a member of the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago, the Progressive Baptist Convention, chairs the L.E.A.D.E.R.S Network, and is founding steering committee member of the National Public Housing Museum.
Civic Engagement Work
He was appointed a Trustee of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2013. In 2015, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Chicago State University. He was elected Board chairman in 2016. Also in 2016, he was elected to serve as a Trustee of the Baptist Theological Union of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Dr. Hatch’s landmark book, “Project America: Memoirs of Faith and Hope to Win The Future”, was published in 2012. His powerfully insightful book of urban pastoral eulogies, “Absent In The Body: Eulogies of Life & Death In Black Chicago”, will be published in early 2018.
FIRST LADY, PRISCILLA HATCH
Priscilla holds a position as Director of Student Accounts/Office Manager at Christ the King Jesuit College Prep on the west side of Chicago.
Her spiritual journey began at the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church where her father-in-law, the late Rev. Elijah Hatch, was her pastor.
Priscilla is a native of Chicago, Illinois and was born on June 20, 1959. She has been serving in the ministry along with her husband at New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church since 1993 as a Sunday school teacher for pre-school students, ages 1-5 years old. She is currently Pastor of the Children’s Church Ministry which serves ages 2 to 12 years old. In 1985, she served at Commonwealth Missionary Baptist Church where her husband was pastor. She was a Sunday School teacher, organist for the children’s choir, director of the youth choir, and church secretary.
In addition to serving children in ministry, she has also coordinated and facilitated various conferences for women. She has taught two six week courses on “Women of God Fulfilling Their Purpose in Life” and “The Lifestyle of a Christian Wife.” Additionally, in 2001 she was a keynote speaker of an Annual Women’s Day Conference entitled “Empowering Women in the New Millennium.”
God has blessed her to publish three books. Her first book Surviving the Fishbowl, “Memoirs of Ministry and Faithfulness” in November 2020. Her second and third book “I Am A Masterpiece” (children and adult version) in May 2022.
She graduated from Northwestern Business College with high honors receiving her Associate Degree in Business and Organizational Management in November of 2000, and in May of 2013 she graduated from Concordia University Chicago receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Management.
She also received her Child Development Certification at Olive Harvey College in Chicago in December of 2015.
Priscilla Hatch has been married to Rev. Dr. Marshall Elijah Hatch for 39 years and they have four lovely children Joyce, Janelle, Marshall, and Maurice and five grandchildren Leon, Langston, Sofia Jordan and Robert Jr.
