Reverend Hilliard C. Hudson was born in Brownsville, Tennessee on February 22, 1954 to the Rev. & Mrs. Clyde Hudson. Rev. Hudson accepted Christ in November 1961 in Decatur, Illinois at the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church under Rev. H. Levi McClendon, Jr. He accepted his calling into the ministry under his father, the late Rev. Clyde Hudson, at the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Jan 1976. He attended Millikin University with a concentration in Accounting. He then attended Louisiana Theological Seminary with a concentration in Christian Education.

 

 Rev. Hudson was Ordained under Rev. B. J. Tatum at the Canaan Missionary Baptist Church in Urbana, Illinois in May 1983. He was then called as the undershepherd of the Pilgrim Baptist Church of South Chicago. He has been pastoring the church since February 1985. The Church has grown numerically, spiritually, and financially under his leadership.

 

Rev. Hudson is very active in the community as well as the denominational work in the District, State, and National. He is a board member of the South Chicago Chamber of Commerce, South Chicago YMCA, Southeast Alcohol Drug Abuse Center, American Heart Association, Claretian Associates, and other local organizations. His involvement in the Denominational work includes the First Vice Moderator of the Greater New Era District Association of Chicago and vicinity, Instructor in the Congress of Christian Education of Greater New Era, past Director of the Doctrinal Division in the Baptist General State Congress of Christian Ed., past Seminar Leader of the Congress, and present Instructor, Instructor for Family and Parenting workshop in the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education, and widely sought after for Leadership School Instructor and District Assoc. all over the State of Illinois.

 

Rev. Hudson conducts workshops and has been preaching revivals across the states and the Virgin Islands. He is also a Sunday School Instructor on the Chicago’s International Sunday School on Channel 25. He has conducted several workshops at