{"id":23139,"date":"2023-02-02T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=23139"},"modified":"2023-03-16T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:21:36","slug":"jennifer-hudson-features-5-year-old-preacher-who-went-viral-for-baptizing-his-paw-patrol-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/02\/jennifer-hudson-features-5-year-old-preacher-who-went-viral-for-baptizing-his-paw-patrol-toy.html","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hudson Features 5-Year-Old &#8216;Preacher&#8217; Who Went Viral For Baptizing His Paw Patrol Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23145\" style=\"width: 764px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/02\/luke-tillman-credit-the-jennifer-hudson-show-youtube.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23145\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/02\/luke-tillman-credit-the-jennifer-hudson-show-youtube.png\" alt=\"luke tillman\" width=\"764\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Hudson Show\/YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson, who now has her own self-titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kh36CMu8Q-8&amp;t=2s&amp;ab_channel=JenniferHudsonShow\">daytime television show<\/a>, recently featured a 5-year-old preacher\u2019s kids who gained notoriety after a video of him baptizing a stuffed animal was seen by millions online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, y\u2019all ready for a little church today? Hudson said, introducing her audience to Luke Tillman, whom she called a \u201cpreacher.\u201d Tillman\u2019s mom captured the young boy dressed in a costume and singing \u201cTake Me to the Water\u201d in a bathtub filled with water as he acted out a baptism on his \u201cPaw Patrol\u201d toy named Chase.<\/p>\n<p>Tillman enthusiastically told Hudson that he wants to grow up to be a preacher and a Christian, just like his father, who he\u2019s been closely watching during church services. He told Hudson that he waited to be baptized after first asking his father to baptize him at age 2. His father later baptized him when he was 4.\u00a0Tillman said, \u201cWhen I grow up, I want to be a pastor and a Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hudson was baffled by the young man as the audience cheered. \u201cIt\u2019s a blessing,\u201d Tillman\u2019s father said. \u201cI\u2019m thinking, now the pressure is always on PK\u2019s (preacher\u2019s kids) and the whole development of him and desire to want to do it and genuinely want to do it; it\u2019s a blessing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kh36CMu8Q-8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u00a0is 20\u00a0years of me preaching, and he preached to 20 million people in one week,\u201d the proud dad added. \u201cI haven\u2019t reached that in 20 years. I\u2019m very happy about that.\u201d The interview ended with Tillman singing \u201cTake Me to the Water\u201d with the Oscar and Grammy Award winner and the audience who joined him.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson then blessed Tillman with a basket of Paw Patrol characters. \u201cYou have lifted us all up. You have an amazing calling on your life, so you keep doing what you\u2019re doing, OK, and walking to God\u2019s will. You gonna do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d never forget about God,\u201d he declared. Hudson, who grew up in the church, told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/respect-star-jennifer-hudson-says-her-gifts-were-given-by-god.html\">The Christian Post\u00a0<\/a>in a previous interview that she\u00a0\u201clearned at a very early age\u201d that her talents are a gift from God. \u201cI feel as though as long as I hold on to that, it keeps you grounded in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo even hold on to the gift that is given and to be able to honor that when you\u2019re conscious enough, or wise enough, discerned enough to know that it\u2019s not you, but it\u2019s God working through [you].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson, who now has her own self-titled\u00a0daytime television show, recently featured a 5-year-old preacher\u2019s kids who gained notoriety after a video of him baptizing a stuffed animal was seen by millions online. \u201cOK, y\u2019all ready for a little church today? 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