Our Assistant Pastor

Toni L. Holder is a preacher, teacher, mentor, wife, and mother. She is a native Baltimorean who graduated from Western High School, earned an Associate of Arts Degree in General Studies from Baltimore City Community College, a Bachelor Degree in Administration with a concentration in Health Care Administration from Sojourner-Douglass College and a Master’s Degree in Christian Care from Capital Seminary and Graduate School.

She preached her initial sermon entitled “Let’s Go to the Wilderness”, on July 12, 2009, at the Garden of Prayer Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland and was ordained by the Grace Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland on March 9, 2012.

Reverend Holder serves in various capacities at Grace. Currently, she is the Assistant Pastor, First Lady and Ministry Advisor for the following ministries: Deaconess, Women of Grace Women’s Ministry, Grace G.E.M.S. Girls’ Ministry, Junior Dance Ministry, Mime Ministry and  Co-facilitator for the Couples Ministry. She has also served as speaker for various women’s ministries and continues to use her gifts for the kingdom. 

Reverend Holder is the loving and devoted wife of Pastor Eric A. Holder and together they have three children.

One of her favorite scriptures is Ephesians 2:10… “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”