Bishop Donte Hickman is the Senior Pastor of Southern Baptist Church of Baltimore. Since assuming the Pastorate of Southern, the church has experienced phenomenal growth. With a focus on church health beyond church growth, Bishop Hickman began his ministry at Southern by teaching the leadership and membership the purpose-driven church model for ministry. He led the congregation in developing a vision and mission statement for the church that balanced the church’s efforts around evangelism, worship, discipleship, fellowship, and ministry leadership. Rev. Hickman led the church in a $1/2 million dollar renovation, initiated a strong marketing program, a television and radio broadcast ministry, developed a ministerial and executive staff, and organized the auxiliaries of the church toward maximizing ministry and outreach.
Dr. Donte’ Hickman has an evangelistic burden for community development and outreach. In 2004, he commissioned task forces from a cross section of the membership to determine the demographic needs of our East Baltimore community to develop a multi-generational strategy of revitalization. Under the mantra of Restoring People and Rebuilding Properties, Pastor Hickman led the church in a major campaign of property acquisition to build another sixty unit Senior Housing facility, a Transformation Center to administer health, workforce development, behavioral counseling, and community services, an Early Headstart Youth Enrichment Center, Affordable Homes, Mixed-use Commercial Development, and Church Expansion to meet the ministry needs of a rapidly growing congregation. The vision is becoming reality.
Bishop Donté L. Hickman, Sr. is happily married to the former Miss Danielle Curtis and they are the proud parents of two kingdom-purposed children, Donté’ Lamont Hickman, Jr. and Dawson Luke Hickman.