Currently, NMP/PDC has partnered with Chicago Cred to employ at risk young men (18-24 years old) in a community development program called the “MAAFA Redemption Project”. He has also launched a visitation and correspondence ministry for the incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections and Cook County Jail, organized the Mountain Men Ministries, the Women of Purpose discipleship ministry, “The Call To Life” Substance Abuse Support Ministry, the Safe Haven CPS after school program, and the Pilgrim Development Corporation of West Garfield Park (Pilgrim Village & Pilgrim Village Apartments). In 2009, Hatch established “Passports to The World”, a biennial overseas African missions trip for the church’s inner city youth. 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. Throughout his ministry, Marshall Hatch has commenced numerous community outreach programs. In 2009 he was appointed and currently serves as adjunct Professor of Urban Ministry at Northern Baptist Seminary in Lombard, Illinois. In January 2007, he received the MLK Award and served as Bates College Martin Luther King Jr. Grant and Award for Civic Leadership from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
In November of 2006, he was awarded the Weston Howland Jr. In August 2000, Marshall Hatch was appointed an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. This honor was shared with three other distinguished scholars in the practice of ministry in the spring of 1999. In 1998 he was appointed a Merrill Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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. His spiritual development began in Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church under the pastorate of his father, the late Reverend Elijah Hatch. Born Main Chicago, Illinois, Marshall Hatch is a native of the west side. has been the Pastor of the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church located in the heart of Chicago’s West Garfield community since 1993.
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