Our Leader

REV. MARLON D. ECTOR, MBA,  IS A RADICAL, REVOLUTIONARY, INNOVATIVE, & CUTTING-EDGE PREACHER. HE IS A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, & TEACHER OF HIS GENERATION. HE IS A DYNAMIC, AND INSPIRATIONAL VISIONARY LEADER, & MULTI-TALENTED ENTREPRENEUR AND PHILANTHROPIST. HE SERVES AS THE TENTH SENIOR PASTOR OF THE SPRINGHILL BAPTIST CHURCH (SHBC) IN LIZELLA, GA WITH A 157-YEAR HISTORY OF WORSHIPPING CHRIST THROUGH SERVING PEOPLE.

UNDER REV. ECTOR’S EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP, THE SPRINGHILL BAPTIST CHURCH HAS GROWN IN ITS FAITH, FAMILY, FINANCES, AND FUTURE. TO ACCOMMODATE ITS FAVOR AND GROWTH, THE CHURCH NOW HOLDS FOUR-WEEKEND WORSHIP SERVICES ONLINE AND WILL BE GOING TO 4 IN-PERSON SUNDAY SERVICES FROM THE CURRENT TWO SERVICES WHEN HE STARTED.

REV. ECTOR HAS LAUNCHED AN INITIATIVE IN WHICH WE WILL BE REDESIGNING AND/OR EXPAND THE CURRENT SANCTUARY AND MINISTRY FACILITY. REV. ECTOR IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST REAL AND RELEVANT VOICES IN OUR GENERATION. HE IS ONE EMPATHETIC PASTOR WHO DOES NOT SHY AWAY FROM THE CHAOS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND EVEN POLITICAL ISSUES THAT AFFECT HIS AND OTHER COMMUNITIES LIKE HIS. REV. ECTOR HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CHALLENGE THE MIND, INSPIRE THE HEART, AND PUSH PEOPLE TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL BY NEVER GIVING UP. HE IS ONE THAT BRINGS THE WORD OF GOD TO LIFE IN A PRACTICAL SENSE IN ORDER FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO LIVE OUT THEIR PURPOSE WITH CLARITY AND FOCUSED DIRECTION.

REV. ECTOR IS A COMPASSIONATE, UNDERSTANDING, AND EMPATHIC PASTOR WHO CARES DEEPLY FOR THE MEMBERS OF SPRINGHILL BAPTIST CHURCH.  HE HAS SERVED IN MULTIPLE CAPACITIES FROM YOUTH PASTOR AT VERNON A.M.E. CHURCH UNDER DR. ISSAC N. HUDSON. ALSO, SERVING AS YOUTH CHOIR DIRECTOR FOR THE GMWA TULSA, OK CHAPTER UNDER REV. JOEY CRUTCHER. HE SERVED AT GREATER EMMANUEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER HIS FATHER IN MINISTRY THE LATE PASTOR REGINALD A. CALDWELL, SR. IT WAS HERE THAT MARLON BEGAN SERVING IN FULL-TIME MINISTRY AND OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS SERVING IN SEVERAL SENIOR/EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS UP TO EXECUTIVE PASTOR.
AFTER HIS FATHER IN MINISTRY, PASTOR R.A. CALDWELL, SR. PASSED AWAY IN JAN. OF 2008, MARLON CONTINUED TO SERVE AS EXECUTIVE PASTOR UNDER PASTOR REV. BRAIN J. WATKINS(ELECTED PASTOR).
IN JUNE OF 2010, REV. ECTOR WAS CALLED AND ELECTED TO BECOME THE SENIOR PASTOR OF BRIDGEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH, LOCATED IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN SOUTHWEST AREA. DURING THIS TIME REV. ECTOR WORKS TO COMPLETE HIS EDUCATIONAL GOALS AND HE DID. WHILE PASTORING, HE COMPLETED FOR DEGREES.  AN ASSOCIATES DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION FROM WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, A BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, AND  TWO MASTERS DEGREES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY, WHICH ARE A MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION & A MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER INFORMATION & SYSTEMS.

THEN AGAIN, ON MARCH 11, 2018, REV. MARLON D. ECTOR WAS ELECTED BY THE CONGREGATIONAL VOTE AND WAS INSTALLED AS THE TENTH PASTOR OF SPRINGHILL BAPTIST CHURCH ON OCTOBER 28, 2018. REV. ECTOR’S LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION, PRACTICAL PREACHING, AND TEACHING HAS MADE QUITE AN IMPACT ON THE LIFE OF TSHBC. IN HIS VISION, WE ARE NOW ON LIVE BROADCAST EVERY SUNDAY, AND GOING TO BE MOVING TOWARDS A FOUR SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE, FROM OUR CURRENT TWO SUNDAYS. THERE HAS BEEN A GROWTH, AND A FOUNDATION LAID AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR US IN THIS NESTING SEASON OF LIFE AND MINISTRY.

CURRENTLY, REV. ECTOR IS WORKING ON HIS DMIN AT PAYNE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. LASTLY, OUR PASTOR IS A GIRLDAD, HE IS THE PROUD FATHER OF CAMAYA & KEAIRA, WHO BOTH HAVE HIM WRAP AROUND THEIR FIGURES AND THEY ARE THE  APPLE'S OF HIS EYE. HE LOVES HIS FAMILY TIME AND INTERACTION AS HE WATCHES HIS YOUNG LADIES GROW.